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Thomas Glanzmann· May 28, 2005, 14:15 UTC · lore
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Author: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date:   Sat May 28 16:13:22 2005 +0200
    
    [PATCH] Document the --root switch of git-diff-tree
    
    Signed-off-by: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
fb94d3e7fbe8e22201d8d015ed444d46485a3f76 (from 8310c2c0b585d3ac35a275f795e15fd9887e8b7d)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ OPTIONS
 -z::
 	\0 line termination on output
 
+--root::
+	When '--root' is specified the initial commit of a new file
+	will be showed as a big creation event. This is equivalent to
+	a diff against NULL.
+
 --stdin::
 	When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take
 	<tree-ish> arguments from the command line.  Instead, it

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