Re: confusion with git diff-tree output

David Roundy [off-list ref] wrote:

I've been struggling with trying to figure out how to make diff-tree
output the actual files changed.  Below is the output when I run
diff-tree on a given commit.  It reports that the directory is
modified, rather than that a single file within that directory is
modified.

Tree objects are recursively nested, i.e.

66b67ea1763799c0b2ac01f6803177ca870f6544 M	Iolaus

is a reference to another tree object... and since a file in that
subtree changed, a new tree object that contains a different file
record is now referenced as "Iolaus".

By default git diff-tree doesn't recurse, but you can use -r for that.
Which is documented, I might add. ;)

Jan