From 0746b620010d5e3b48f6fdb210edf3a066d0bc6a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:42:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [PATCH] Document the --root switch of git-diff-tree

Signed-off-by: Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
---
 Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
index e2a22e08..77b1fb17 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-tree.txt
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ OPTIONS
 -z::
 	\0 line termination on output
 
+--root::
+	When '--root' is specified the initial commit will be showed as a big
+	creation event. This is equivalent to a diff against the NULL tree.
+
 --stdin::
 	When '--stdin' is specified, the command does not take
 	<tree-ish> arguments from the command line.  Instead, it
-- 
2.11.0