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authorJunio C Hamano <junio@kernel.org>2011-01-31 05:03:45 +0000
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<div id="header">
@@ -318,13 +412,13 @@ gitdiffcore(7) Manual Page
</p>
</div>
</div>
-<h2>SYNOPSIS</h2>
+<h2 id="_synopsis">SYNOPSIS</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p><em>git diff</em> *</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p><em>git diff</em> *</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_description">DESCRIPTION</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p>The diff commands <em>git diff-index</em>, <em>git diff-files</em>, and <em>git diff-tree</em>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The diff commands <em>git diff-index</em>, <em>git diff-files</em>, and <em>git diff-tree</em>
can be told to manipulate differences they find in
unconventional ways before showing <em>diff</em> output. The manipulation
is collectively called "diffcore transformation". This short note
@@ -333,9 +427,9 @@ that is easier to understand than the conventional kind.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_the_chain_of_operation">The chain of operation</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p>The <em>git diff-&#42;</em> family works by first comparing two sets of
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The <em>git diff-&#42;</em> family works by first comparing two sets of
files:</p></div>
-<div class="ilist"><ul>
+<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
<em>git diff-index</em> compares contents of a "tree" object and the
@@ -356,20 +450,20 @@ files:</p></div>
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
-<div class="para"><p>In all of these cases, the commands themselves first optionally limit
+<div class="paragraph"><p>In all of these cases, the commands themselves first optionally limit
the two sets of files by any pathspecs given on their command-lines,
and compare corresponding paths in the two resulting sets of files.</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>The pathspecs are used to limit the world diff operates in. They remove
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The pathspecs are used to limit the world diff operates in. They remove
the filepairs outside the specified sets of pathnames. E.g. If the
input set of filepairs included:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>:100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M junkfile</tt></pre>
</div></div>
-<div class="para"><p>but the command invocation was <tt>git diff-files myfile</tt>, then the
+<div class="paragraph"><p>but the command invocation was <tt>git diff-files myfile</tt>, then the
junkfile entry would be removed from the list because only "myfile"
is under consideration.</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>The result of comparison is passed from these commands to what is
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The result of comparison is passed from these commands to what is
internally called "diffcore", in a format similar to what is output
when the -p option is not used. E.g.</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
@@ -379,11 +473,11 @@ create :000000 100644 0000000... 1234567... A file4
delete :100644 000000 1234567... 0000000... D file5
unmerged :000000 000000 0000000... 0000000... U file6</tt></pre>
</div></div>
-<div class="para"><p>The diffcore mechanism is fed a list of such comparison results
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The diffcore mechanism is fed a list of such comparison results
(each of which is called "filepair", although at this point each
of them talks about a single file), and transforms such a list
into another list. There are currently 5 such transformations:</p></div>
-<div class="ilist"><ul>
+<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
diffcore-break
@@ -410,7 +504,7 @@ diffcore-order
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
-<div class="para"><p>These are applied in sequence. The set of filepairs <em>git diff-&#42;</em>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>These are applied in sequence. The set of filepairs <em>git diff-&#42;</em>
commands find are used as the input to diffcore-break, and
the output from diffcore-break is used as the input to the
next transformation. The final result is then passed to the
@@ -420,7 +514,7 @@ diff-patch format.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_diffcore_break_for_splitting_up_complete_rewrites">diffcore-break: For Splitting Up "Complete Rewrites"</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p>The second transformation in the chain is diffcore-break, and is
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The second transformation in the chain is diffcore-break, and is
controlled by the -B option to the <em>git diff-&#42;</em> commands. This is
used to detect a filepair that represents "complete rewrite" and
break such filepair into two filepairs that represent delete and
@@ -429,14 +523,14 @@ create. E.g. If the input contained this filepair:</p></div>
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>:100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0</tt></pre>
</div></div>
-<div class="para"><p>and if it detects that the file "file0" is completely rewritten,
+<div class="paragraph"><p>and if it detects that the file "file0" is completely rewritten,
it changes it to:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>:100644 000000 bcd1234... 0000000... D file0
:000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... A file0</tt></pre>
</div></div>
-<div class="para"><p>For the purpose of breaking a filepair, diffcore-break examines
+<div class="paragraph"><p>For the purpose of breaking a filepair, diffcore-break examines
the extent of changes between the contents of the files before
and after modification (i.e. the contents that have "bcd1234&#8230;"
and "0123456&#8230;" as their SHA1 content ID, in the above
@@ -451,7 +545,7 @@ after "-B" option (e.g. "-B75" to tell it to use 75%).</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_diffcore_rename_for_detection_renames_and_copies">diffcore-rename: For Detection Renames and Copies</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p>This transformation is used to detect renames and copies, and is
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This transformation is used to detect renames and copies, and is
controlled by the -M option (to detect renames) and the -C option
(to detect copies as well) to the <em>git diff-&#42;</em> commands. If the
input contained these filepairs:</p></div>
@@ -460,14 +554,14 @@ input contained these filepairs:</p></div>
<pre><tt>:100644 000000 0123456... 0000000... D fileX
:000000 100644 0000000... 0123456... A file0</tt></pre>
</div></div>
-<div class="para"><p>and the contents of the deleted file fileX is similar enough to
+<div class="paragraph"><p>and the contents of the deleted file fileX is similar enough to
the contents of the created file file0, then rename detection
merges these filepairs and creates:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
<pre><tt>:100644 100644 0123456... 0123456... R100 fileX file0</tt></pre>
</div></div>
-<div class="para"><p>When the "-C" option is used, the original contents of modified files,
+<div class="paragraph"><p>When the "-C" option is used, the original contents of modified files,
and deleted files (and also unmodified files, if the
"--find-copies-harder" option is used) are considered as candidates
of the source files in rename/copy operation. If the input were like
@@ -478,7 +572,7 @@ created file file0:</p></div>
<pre><tt>:100644 100644 0123456... 1234567... M fileY
:000000 100644 0000000... bcd3456... A file0</tt></pre>
</div></div>
-<div class="para"><p>the original contents of fileY and the resulting contents of
+<div class="paragraph"><p>the original contents of fileY and the resulting contents of
file0 are compared, and if they are similar enough, they are
changed to:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
@@ -486,13 +580,13 @@ changed to:</p></div>
<pre><tt>:100644 100644 0123456... 1234567... M fileY
:100644 100644 0123456... bcd3456... C100 fileY file0</tt></pre>
</div></div>
-<div class="para"><p>In both rename and copy detection, the same "extent of changes"
+<div class="paragraph"><p>In both rename and copy detection, the same "extent of changes"
algorithm used in diffcore-break is used to determine if two
files are "similar enough", and can be customized to use
a similarity score different from the default of 50% by giving a
number after the "-M" or "-C" option (e.g. "-M8" to tell it to use
8/10 = 80%).</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>Note. When the "-C" option is used with <tt>--find-copies-harder</tt>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Note. When the "-C" option is used with <tt>--find-copies-harder</tt>
option, <em>git diff-&#42;</em> commands feed unmodified filepairs to
diffcore mechanism as well as modified ones. This lets the copy
detector consider unmodified files as copy source candidates at
@@ -502,11 +596,11 @@ copied happened to have been modified in the same changeset.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_diffcore_merge_broken_for_putting_complete_rewrites_back_together">diffcore-merge-broken: For Putting "Complete Rewrites" Back Together</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p>This transformation is used to merge filepairs broken by
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This transformation is used to merge filepairs broken by
diffcore-break, and not transformed into rename/copy by
diffcore-rename, back into a single modification. This always
runs when diffcore-break is used.</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>For the purpose of merging broken filepairs back, it uses a
+<div class="paragraph"><p>For the purpose of merging broken filepairs back, it uses a
different "extent of changes" computation from the ones used by
diffcore-break and diffcore-rename. It counts only the deletion
from the original, and does not count insertion. If you removed
@@ -518,12 +612,12 @@ rename/copy detection, but if filepairs broken that way were not
matched with other filepairs to create rename/copy, then this
transformation merges them back into the original
"modification".</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>The "extent of changes" parameter can be tweaked from the
+<div class="paragraph"><p>The "extent of changes" parameter can be tweaked from the
default 80% (that is, unless more than 80% of the original
material is deleted, the broken pairs are merged back into a
single modification) by giving a second number to -B option,
like these:</p></div>
-<div class="ilist"><ul>
+<div class="ulist"><ul>
<li>
<p>
-B50/60 (give 50% "break score" to diffcore-break, use 60%
@@ -536,7 +630,7 @@ like these:</p></div>
</p>
</li>
</ul></div>
-<div class="para"><p>Note that earlier implementation left a broken pair as a separate
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Note that earlier implementation left a broken pair as a separate
creation and deletion patches. This was an unnecessary hack and
the latest implementation always merges all the broken pairs
back into modifications, but the resulting patch output is
@@ -547,16 +641,16 @@ version prefixed with <em>+</em>.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_diffcore_pickaxe_for_detecting_addition_deletion_of_specified_string">diffcore-pickaxe: For Detecting Addition/Deletion of Specified String</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p>This transformation is used to find filepairs that represent
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This transformation is used to find filepairs that represent
changes that touch a specified string, and is controlled by the
-S option and the <tt>--pickaxe-all</tt> option to the <em>git diff-&#42;</em>
commands.</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>When diffcore-pickaxe is in use, it checks if there are
+<div class="paragraph"><p>When diffcore-pickaxe is in use, it checks if there are
filepairs whose "result" side and whose "origin" side have
different number of specified string. Such a filepair represents
"the string appeared in this changeset". It also checks for the
opposite case that loses the specified string.</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>When <tt>--pickaxe-all</tt> is not in effect, diffcore-pickaxe leaves
+<div class="paragraph"><p>When <tt>--pickaxe-all</tt> is not in effect, diffcore-pickaxe leaves
only such filepairs that touch the specified string in its
output. When <tt>--pickaxe-all</tt> is used, diffcore-pickaxe leaves all
filepairs intact if there is such a filepair, or makes the
@@ -566,14 +660,14 @@ changeset easier.</p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_diffcore_order_for_sorting_the_output_based_on_filenames">diffcore-order: For Sorting the Output Based on Filenames</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p>This is used to reorder the filepairs according to the user's
-(or project's) taste, and is controlled by the -O option to the
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This is used to reorder the filepairs according to the user&#8217;s
+(or project&#8217;s) taste, and is controlled by the -O option to the
<em>git diff-&#42;</em> commands.</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>This takes a text file each of whose lines is a shell glob
+<div class="paragraph"><p>This takes a text file each of whose lines is a shell glob
pattern. Filepairs that match a glob pattern on an earlier line
in the file are output before ones that match a later line, and
filepairs that do not match any glob pattern are output last.</p></div>
-<div class="para"><p>As an example, a typical orderfile for the core git probably
+<div class="paragraph"><p>As an example, a typical orderfile for the core git probably
would look like this:</p></div>
<div class="listingblock">
<div class="content">
@@ -587,22 +681,22 @@ t</tt></pre>
</div>
<h2 id="_see_also">SEE ALSO</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p><a href="git-diff.html">git-diff(1)</a>,
+<div class="paragraph"><p><a href="git-diff.html">git-diff(1)</a>,
<a href="git-diff-files.html">git-diff-files(1)</a>,
<a href="git-diff-index.html">git-diff-index(1)</a>,
<a href="git-diff-tree.html">git-diff-tree(1)</a>,
<a href="git-format-patch.html">git-format-patch(1)</a>,
<a href="git-log.html">git-log(1)</a>,
<a href="gitglossary.html">gitglossary(7)</a>,
-<a href="user-manual.html">The Git User's Manual</a></p></div>
+<a href="user-manual.html">The Git User&#8217;s Manual</a></p></div>
</div>
<h2 id="_git">GIT</h2>
<div class="sectionbody">
-<div class="para"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite.</p></div>
+<div class="paragraph"><p>Part of the <a href="git.html">git(1)</a> suite.</p></div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div id="footer-text">
-Last updated 2010-09-30 00:03:01 UTC
+Last updated 2010-09-30 00:01:59 UTC
</div>
</div>
</body>