config option log.showroot to show the diff of root commits

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

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-format.txt b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
index 174d63a1ee4238aac88c76daee6f3f1bead0d6b5..e4520e28e53661159454e02c703be772d43bbc09 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/diff-format.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-format.txt
@@ -144,8 +144,10 @@ the file that rename/copy produces, respectively.
        dissimilarity index <number>
        index <hash>..<hash> <mode>
 
-3.  TAB, LF, and backslash characters in pathnames are
-    represented as `\t`, `\n`, and `\\`, respectively.
+3.  TAB, LF, double quote and backslash characters in pathnames
+    are represented as `\t`, `\n`, `\"` and `\\`, respectively.
+    If there is need for such substitution then the whole
+    pathname is put in double quotes.
 
 
 combined diff format
@@ -212,9 +214,9 @@ copying detection) are designed to work with diff of two
        --- a/file
        +++ b/file
 +
-Contrary to two-line header for traditional 'unified' diff
-format, and similar to filenames in ordinary "diff header",
-/dev/null is not used for creation or deletion.
+Similar to two-line header for traditional 'unified' diff
+format, `/dev/null` is used to signal created or deleted
+files.
 
 4.   Chunk header format is modified to prevent people from
      accidentally feeding it to `patch -p1`. Combined diff format