X-Git-Url: https://git.verplant.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-diff-tree.txt;h=339a92287abd10be3b592c2fcb32788470f9f867;hb=ab1630a3ed31d6ec5ae83769c78ed542fe3c4a28;hp=b2095cb04959ab2c21ee1b51ba0e7b169bd5b53d;hpb=80bd6f3064a6009cd18a4dab9ce6d29681cec4af;p=git.git

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
index b2095cb0..339a9228 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
@@ -9,12 +9,15 @@ git-diff-tree - Compares the content and mode of blobs found via two tree object
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--pretty] [-t] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> <tree-ish> [<path>...]
+'git-diff-tree' [--stdin] [-m] [-s] [-v] [--pretty] [-t] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<tree-ish>] [<path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via two tree objects.
 
+If there is only one <tree-ish> given, the commit is compared with its parents
+(see --stdin below).
+
 Note that "git-diff-tree" can use the tree encapsulated in a commit object.
 
 OPTIONS
@@ -86,28 +89,30 @@ Or if you are searching for what changed in just `kernel/sched.c`, just do
 and it will ignore all differences to other files.
 
 The pattern is always the prefix, and is matched exactly.  There are no
-wildcards.  Even stricter, it has to match complete path comonent.
+wildcards.  Even stricter, it has to match a complete path component.
 I.e. "foo" does not pick up `foobar.h`.  "foo" does match `foo/bar.h`
 so it can be used to name subdirectories.
 
 An example of normal usage is:
 
   torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git-diff-tree 5319e4......
-  *100664->100664 blob    ac348b.......->a01513.......      git-fsck-cache.c
+  *100664->100664 blob    ac348b.......->a01513.......      git-fsck-objects.c
 
 which tells you that the last commit changed just one file (it's from
 this one:
 
-  commit 3c6f7ca19ad4043e9e72fa94106f352897e651a8
-  tree 5319e4d609cdd282069cc4dce33c1db559539b03
-  parent b4e628ea30d5ab3606119d2ea5caeab141d38df7
-  author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005
-  committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+commit 3c6f7ca19ad4043e9e72fa94106f352897e651a8
+tree 5319e4d609cdd282069cc4dce33c1db559539b03
+parent b4e628ea30d5ab3606119d2ea5caeab141d38df7
+author Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005
+committer Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> Sat Apr 9 12:02:30 2005
 
-  Make "git-fsck-cache" print out all the root commits it finds.
+Make "git-fsck-objects" print out all the root commits it finds.
 
-  Once I do the reference tracking, I'll also make it print out all the
-  HEAD commits it finds, which is even more interesting.
+Once I do the reference tracking, I'll also make it print out all the
+HEAD commits it finds, which is even more interesting.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 in case you care).
 
@@ -126,5 +131,5 @@ Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel
 
 GIT
 ---
-Part of the link:git.html[git] suite
+Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite