Merge branch 'jc/makefile'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index 68e65324f87a691be9459957796761ff45898564..57c28628bbfb86b7fa190f7530583fc6ac665d9e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ tree and the index file, or the index file and the working tree.
        the index (staging area for the next commit).  In other
        words, the differences are what you _could_ tell git to
        further add to the index but you still haven't.  You can
-       stage these changes by using gitlink:git-add[1].
+       stage these changes by using linkgit:git-add[1].
 +
 If exactly two paths are given, and at least one is untracked,
 compare the two files / directories. This behavior can be
@@ -53,27 +53,29 @@ forced by --no-index.
        one side is omitted, it will have the same effect as
        using HEAD instead.
 
-'git-diff' [--options] <commit>...<commit> [--] [<path>...]::
+'git-diff' [--options] <commit>\...<commit> [--] [<path>...]::
 
        This form is to view the changes on the branch containing
        and up to the second <commit>, starting at a common ancestor
-       of both <commit>.  "git-diff A...B" is equivalent to
+       of both <commit>.  "git-diff A\...B" is equivalent to
        "git-diff $(git-merge-base A B) B".  You can omit any one
        of <commit>, which has the same effect as using HEAD instead.
 
 Just in case if you are doing something exotic, it should be
-noted that all of the <commit> in the above description can be
-any <tree-ish>.
+noted that all of the <commit> in the above description, except
+for the last two forms that use ".." notations, can be any
+<tree-ish>.
 
 For a more complete list of ways to spell <commit>, see
-"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
+"SPECIFYING REVISIONS" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
 However, "diff" is about comparing two _endpoints_, not ranges,
 and the range notations ("<commit>..<commit>" and
-"<commit>...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the
-"SPECIFYING RANGES" section in gitlink:git-rev-parse[1].
+"<commit>\...<commit>") do not mean a range as defined in the
+"SPECIFYING RANGES" section in linkgit:git-rev-parse[1].
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
+:git-diff: 1
 include::diff-options.txt[]
 
 <path>...::
@@ -81,6 +83,9 @@ include::diff-options.txt[]
        the diff to the named paths (you can give directory
        names and get diff for all files under them).
 
+Output format
+-------------
+include::diff-format.txt[]
 
 EXAMPLES
 --------
@@ -124,7 +129,7 @@ $ git diff topic...master  <3>
 +
 <1> Changes between the tips of the topic and the master branches.
 <2> Same as above.
-<3> Changes that occured on the master branch since when the topic
+<3> Changes that occurred on the master branch since when the topic
 branch was started off it.
 
 Limiting the diff output::
@@ -163,4 +168,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite