You're right. I figured I must be overlooking something obvious, and that was it. What surprised me was that -p implies -r, which is not documented. Since the -p output was recursive, I incorrectly presumed that this was the default. David On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Jan Krüger <jk@xxxxx> wrote: > Tree objects are recursively nested, i.e. > >> 66b67ea1763799c0b2ac01f6803177ca870f6544 M Iolaus > > is a reference to another tree object... and since a file in that > subtree changed, a new tree object that contains a different file > record is now referenced as "Iolaus". > > By default git diff-tree doesn't recurse, but you can use -r for that. > Which is documented, I might add. ;) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html