why the html and man versions of git-diff are different?

> I compared the html version of git-diff found in
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-diff.html and the
> man version from
> http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.7.3.4.tar.bz2
> 
> The man version says gitrevisions(1), which is incorrect since it is in
> man7.

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 09:43:45PM +0000, Leo wrote:
>
>> I compared the html version of git-diff found in
>> http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-diff.html and the
>> man version from
>> http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-manpages-1.7.3.4.tar.bz2
>> 
>> The man version says gitrevisions(1), which is incorrect since it is in
>> man7.
>
> Because it was fixed recently, and the html documention on kernel.org
> uses the "master" branch, whereas that commit did not make it into the
> maintenance release 1.7.3.4. It will be fixed in the manpages for
> git-1.7.4.
>
> -Peff