Merge branch 'cn/maint-rev-list-doc' into maint-1.7.8

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
index 162cb741b3052560351d2dd3f53c56ece5e51e95..c0b7c581add35e24128a6b7e9aa79a50f914aad5 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ git-diff-index - Compares content and mode of blobs between the index and reposi
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
+[verse]
 'git diff-index' [-m] [--cached] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
@@ -96,8 +97,8 @@ show that. So let's say that you have edited `kernel/sched.c`, but
 have not actually done a 'git update-index' on it yet - there is no
 "object" associated with the new state, and you get:
 
-  torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git diff-index HEAD
-  *100644->100664 blob    7476bb......->000000......      kernel/sched.c
+  torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git diff-index --abbrev HEAD
+  :100644 100664 7476bb... 000000...      kernel/sched.c
 
 i.e., it shows that the tree has changed, and that `kernel/sched.c` has is
 not up-to-date and may contain new stuff. The all-zero sha1 means that to
@@ -116,15 +117,6 @@ tell which file is in which state, since the "has been updated" ones
 show a valid sha1, and the "not in sync with the index" ones will
 always have the special all-zero sha1.
 
-
-Author
-------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
-
-Documentation
---------------
-Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
-
 GIT
 ---
 Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite