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[PATCH] Document the --root switch of git-diff-tree
authorThomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Sat, 28 May 2005 14:42:17 +0000 (16:42 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>
Sun, 29 May 2005 17:59:18 +0000 (10:59 -0700)
Signed-off-by: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt

index e2a22e0869c5db73a29dd740fe089b43e104abbc..77b1fb1799870ed6017f452b26ea940be05d4036 100644 (file)
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ OPTIONS
 -z::
        \0 line termination on output
 
+--root::
+       When '--root' is specified the initial commit will be showed as a big
+       creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against the NULL tree.
+
 --stdin::
        When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take
        <tree-ish> arguments from the command line.  Instead, it