--stdin::
When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take
<tree-ish> arguments from the command line. Instead, it
- reads either one <commit> or a pair of <tree-ish>
+ reads either one <commit> or a list of <commit>
separated with a single space from its standard input.
+
When a single commit is given on one line of such input, it compares
the commit with its parents. The following flags further affects its
-behavior. This does not apply to the case where two <tree-ish>
-separated with a single space are given.
+behavior. The remaining commits, when given, are used as if they are
+parents of the first commit.
-m::
By default, "git-diff-tree --stdin" does not show
This flag changes the way a merge commit patch is displayed,
in a similar way to the '-c' option. It implies the '-c'
and '-p' options and further compresses the patch output
- by omitting hunks that show differences from only one
- parent, or show the same change from all but one parent
- for an Octopus merge. When this optimization makes all
- hunks disappear, the commit itself and the commit log
- message is not shown, just like in any other "empty diff" case.
+ by omitting uninteresting hunks whose the contents in the parents
+ have only two variants and the merge result picks one of them
+ without modification. When all hunks are uninteresting, the commit
+ itself and the commit log message is not shown, just like in any other
+ "empty diff" case.
--always::
Show the commit itself and the commit log message even
GIT
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-Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite