[PATCH] Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt the truth about "diff --git"
From: <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:45:52
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: jidanni <redacted> --- Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
index 0f25ba7..dfc186c 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ diff format. The `a/` and `b/` filenames are the same unless rename/copy is involved. Especially, even for a creation or a deletion, `/dev/null` is _not_ used in place of `a/` or `b/` filenames. +(Diff(1) does not actually have a --git option.) + When rename/copy is involved, `file1` and `file2` show the name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of
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