From: =?UTF-8?q?Jean-No=C3=ABl=20Avila?= <jn.avila@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@xxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt | 48 ++++++++++++++-------------
1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
index 4b5aa5c2e04..0a4dc761e64 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-generate-patch.txt
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ You can customize the creation of patch text via the
`GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF` and the `GIT_DIFF_OPTS` environment variables
(see linkgit:git[1]), and the `diff` attribute (see linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
-What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional
+What the `-p` option produces is slightly different from the traditional
diff format:
1. It is preceded by a "git diff" header that looks like this:
@@ -30,20 +30,21 @@ name of the source file of the rename/copy and the name of
the file that the rename/copy produces, respectively.
2. It is followed by one or more extended header lines:
-
- old mode <mode>
- new mode <mode>
- deleted file mode <mode>
- new file mode <mode>
- copy from <path>
- copy to <path>
- rename from <path>
- rename to <path>
- similarity index <number>
- dissimilarity index <number>
- index <hash>..<hash> <mode>
+
-File modes are printed as 6-digit octal numbers including the file type
+[synopsis]
+old mode <mode>
+new mode <mode>
+deleted file mode <mode>
+new file mode <mode>
+copy from <path>
+copy to <path>
+rename from <path>
+rename to <path>
+similarity index <number>
+dissimilarity index <number>
+index <hash>..<hash> <mode>
++
+File modes _<mode>_ are printed as 6-digit octal numbers including the file type
and file permission bits.
+
Path names in extended headers do not include the `a/` and `b/` prefixes.
@@ -56,7 +57,7 @@ files, while 100% dissimilarity means that no line from the old
file made it into the new one.
+
The index line includes the blob object names before and after the change.
-The <mode> is included if the file mode does not change; otherwise,
+The _<mode>_ is included if the file mode does not change; otherwise,
separate lines indicate the old and the new mode.
3. Pathnames with "unusual" characters are quoted as explained for
@@ -134,17 +135,18 @@ or like this (when the `--cc` option is used):
2. It is followed by one or more extended header lines
(this example shows a merge with two parents):
-
- index <hash>,<hash>..<hash>
- mode <mode>,<mode>..<mode>
- new file mode <mode>
- deleted file mode <mode>,<mode>
+
-The `mode <mode>,<mode>..<mode>` line appears only if at least one of
-the <mode> is different from the rest. Extended headers with
+[synopsis]
+index <hash>,<hash>`..`<hash>
+mode <mode>,<mode>`..`<mode>
+new file mode <mode>
+deleted file mode <mode>,<mode>
++
+The `mode` __<mode>__++,++__<mode>__++..++__<mode>__ line appears only if at least one of
+the _<mode>_ is different from the rest. Extended headers with
information about detected content movement (renames and
copying detection) are designed to work with the diff of two
-<tree-ish> and are not used by combined diff format.
+_<tree-ish>_ and are not used by combined diff format.
3. It is followed by a two-line from-file/to-file header:
--
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