Merge branch 'maint'

[git.git] / Documentation / diff-format.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
index 1eeb1c76838c1911fc4d57b36a16dece0538809a..15c7e794f4adaccb8885683946a9f4e7e4dc92c2 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
@@ -1,4 +1,7 @@
-The output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree",
+Raw output format
+-----------------
+
+The raw output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree",
 "git-diff-files" and "git diff --raw" are very similar.
 
 These commands all compare two sets of things; what is
@@ -16,6 +19,9 @@ git-diff-tree [-r] <tree-ish-1> <tree-ish-2> [<pattern>...]::
 git-diff-files [<pattern>...]::
         compares the index and the files on the filesystem.
 
+The "git-diff-tree" command begins its output by printing the hash of
+what is being compared. After that, all the commands print one output
+line per changed file.
 
 An output line is formatted this way: