1git-diff-tree-helper(1) 2======================= 3v0.1, May 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-diff-tree-helper - Generates patch format output for git-diff-* 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-diff-tree-helper' [-z] [-R] 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Reads output from "git-diff-cache", "git-diff-tree" and "git-diff-files" and 17generates patch format output. 18 19OPTIONS 20------- 21-z:: 22 \0 line termination on input 23 24-R:: 25 Output diff in reverse. This is useful for displaying output from 26 "git-diff-cache" which always compares tree with cache or working 27 file. E.g. 28 29 git-diff-cache <tree> | git-diff-tree-helper -R file.c 30+ 31would show a diff to bring the working file back to what is in the <tree>. 32 33See Also 34-------- 35The section on generating patches in link:git-diff-cache.html[git-diff-cache] 36 37 38Author 39------ 40Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 41 42Documentation 43-------------- 44Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 45 46GIT 47--- 48Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 49