A poster on Stackoverflow was confused that the documentation of git-log promised to generate "patches" or "patch files" with -p, but there were none to be found. Rewrite the corresponding paragraph to talk about "patch text" to avoid the confusion. Shorten the language to say "X does Y" in place of "X does not Z, but Y". Cross-reference the referred-to commands like the rest of the file does. Mention porcelain commands before plumbing commands because I guess that the paragraph is read more frequently in their context. Signed-off-by: Johannes Sixt <j6t@xxxxxxxx> --- I do not have the toolchain to check that a correct result is produced. Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt | 17 +++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt index f10ca410ad..c6bbb2ac22 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt @@ -1,11 +1,12 @@ -Generating patches with -p --------------------------- - -When "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", or "git-diff-files" are run -with a `-p` option, "git diff" without the `--raw` option, or -"git log" with the "-p" option, they -do not produce the output described above; instead they produce a -patch file. You can customize the creation of such patches via the +Generating patch text with -p +----------------------------- + +Running +linkgit:git-diff[1] without the `--raw` option, +or linkgit:git-log[1], linkgit:git-diff-index[1], linkgit:git-diff-tree[1], +or linkgit:git-diff-files[1] with the `-p` option +produces patch text instead of the usual output. +You can customize the creation of patch text via the `GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` and the `GIT_DIFF_OPTS` environment variables. What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional -- 2.23.0.93.g91d3f15def
