git-diff-helper(1)
-=======================
+==================
v0.1, May 2005
NAME
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-diff-helper' [-z] [-R]
+'git-diff-helper' [-z] [-S<string>] [-O<orderfile>]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
-Reads output from "git-diff-cache", "git-diff-tree" and "git-diff-files" and
+Reads output from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree" and "git-diff-files" and
generates patch format output.
OPTIONS
-z::
\0 line termination on input
--R::
- Output diff in reverse. This is useful for displaying output from
- "git-diff-cache" which always compares tree with cache or working
- file. E.g.
+-S<string>::
+ Look for differences that contains the change in <string>.
- git-diff-cache <tree> | git-diff-helper -R file.c
+--pickaxe-all::
+ When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that
+ changeset, not just the files that contains the change
+ in <string>.
-would show a diff to bring the working file back to what is in the <tree>.
+-O<orderfile>::
+ Output the patch in the order specified in the
+ <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line.
See Also
--------
-The section on generating patches in link:git-diff-cache.html[git-diff-cache]
+The section on generating patches in gitlink:git-diff-index[1]
Author
------
-Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
+Written by Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
+
Documentation
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GIT
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-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite