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diff --git a/third_party/git/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/third_party/git/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt deleted file mode 100644 index f10ca410ad..0000000000 --- a/third_party/git/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,197 +0,0 @@ -Generating patches with -p --------------------------- - -When "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", or "git-diff-files" are run -with a `-p` option, "git diff" without the `--raw` option, or -"git log" with the "-p" option, they -do not produce the output described above; instead they produce a -patch file. You can customize the creation of such patches via the -`GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` and the `GIT_DIFF_OPTS` environment variables. - -What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional -diff format: - -1. It is preceded with a "git diff" header that looks like this: - - diff --git a/file1 b/file2 -+ -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 the `a/` or `b/` filenames. -+ -When rename/copy is involved, `file1` and `file2` show the -name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of -the file that rename/copy produces, respectively. - -2. It is followed by one or more extended header lines: - - old mode <mode> - new mode <mode> - deleted file mode <mode> - new file mode <mode> - copy from <path> - copy to <path> - rename from <path> - rename to <path> - similarity index <number> - dissimilarity index <number> - index <hash>..<hash> <mode> -+ -File modes are printed as 6-digit octal numbers including the file type -and file permission bits. -+ -Path names in extended headers do not include the `a/` and `b/` prefixes. -+ -The similarity index is the percentage of unchanged lines, and -the dissimilarity index is the percentage of changed lines. It -is a rounded down integer, followed by a percent sign. The -similarity index value of 100% is thus reserved for two equal -files, while 100% dissimilarity means that no line from the old -file made it into the new one. -+ -The index line includes the SHA-1 checksum before and after the change. -The <mode> is included if the file mode does not change; otherwise, -separate lines indicate the old and the new mode. - -3. Pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as explained for - the configuration variable `core.quotePath` (see - linkgit:git-config[1]). - -4. All the `file1` files in the output refer to files before the - commit, and all the `file2` files refer to files after the commit. - It is incorrect to apply each change to each file sequentially. For - example, this patch will swap a and b: - - diff --git a/a b/b - rename from a - rename to b - diff --git a/b b/a - rename from b - rename to a - - -combined diff format --------------------- - -Any diff-generating command can take the `-c` or `--cc` option to -produce a 'combined diff' when showing a merge. This is the default -format when showing merges with linkgit:git-diff[1] or -linkgit:git-show[1]. Note also that you can give the `-m` option to any -of these commands to force generation of diffs with individual parents -of a merge. - -A 'combined diff' format looks like this: - ------------- -diff --combined describe.c -index fabadb8,cc95eb0..4866510 ---- a/describe.c -+++ b/describe.c -@@@ -98,20 -98,12 +98,20 @@@ - return (a_date > b_date) ? -1 : (a_date == b_date) ? 0 : 1; - } - -- static void describe(char *arg) - -static void describe(struct commit *cmit, int last_one) -++static void describe(char *arg, int last_one) - { - + unsigned char sha1[20]; - + struct commit *cmit; - struct commit_list *list; - static int initialized = 0; - struct commit_name *n; - - + if (get_sha1(arg, sha1) < 0) - + usage(describe_usage); - + cmit = lookup_commit_reference(sha1); - + if (!cmit) - + usage(describe_usage); - + - if (!initialized) { - initialized = 1; - for_each_ref(get_name); ------------- - -1. It is preceded with a "git diff" header, that looks like - this (when `-c` option is used): - - diff --combined file -+ -or like this (when `--cc` option is used): - - diff --cc file - -2. It is followed by one or more extended header lines - (this example shows a merge with two parents): - - index <hash>,<hash>..<hash> - mode <mode>,<mode>..<mode> - new file mode <mode> - deleted file mode <mode>,<mode> -+ -The `mode <mode>,<mode>..<mode>` line appears only if at least one of -the <mode> is different from the rest. Extended headers with -information about detected contents movement (renames and -copying detection) are designed to work with diff of two -<tree-ish> and are not used by combined diff format. - -3. It is followed by two-line from-file/to-file header - - --- a/file - +++ b/file -+ -Similar to two-line header for traditional 'unified' diff -format, `/dev/null` is used to signal created or deleted -files. -+ -However, if the --combined-all-paths option is provided, instead of a -two-line from-file/to-file you get a N+1 line from-file/to-file header, -where N is the number of parents in the merge commit - - --- a/file - --- a/file - --- a/file - +++ b/file -+ -This extended format can be useful if rename or copy detection is -active, to allow you to see the original name of the file in different -parents. - -4. Chunk header format is modified to prevent people from - accidentally feeding it to `patch -p1`. Combined diff format - was created for review of merge commit changes, and was not - meant for apply. The change is similar to the change in the - extended 'index' header: - - @@@ <from-file-range> <from-file-range> <to-file-range> @@@ -+ -There are (number of parents + 1) `@` characters in the chunk -header for combined diff format. - -Unlike the traditional 'unified' diff format, which shows two -files A and B with a single column that has `-` (minus -- -appears in A but removed in B), `+` (plus -- missing in A but -added to B), or `" "` (space -- unchanged) prefix, this format -compares two or more files file1, file2,... with one file X, and -shows how X differs from each of fileN. One column for each of -fileN is prepended to the output line to note how X's line is -different from it. - -A `-` character in the column N means that the line appears in -fileN but it does not appear in the result. A `+` character -in the column N means that the line appears in the result, -and fileN does not have that line (in other words, the line was -added, from the point of view of that parent). - -In the above example output, the function signature was changed -from both files (hence two `-` removals from both file1 and -file2, plus `++` to mean one line that was added does not appear -in either file1 or file2). Also eight other lines are the same -from file1 but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed with `+`). - -When shown by `git diff-tree -c`, it compares the parents of a -merge commit with the merge result (i.e. file1..fileN are the -parents). When shown by `git diff-files -c`, it compares the -two unresolved merge parents with the working tree file -(i.e. file1 is stage 2 aka "our version", file2 is stage 3 aka -"their version"). |