Re: Git, diffs, and patches

On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 01:39:49PM -0500, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> I learned a few things when working on the key management patch that I
> want to share here in case it helps anyone:
...
> Maybe everyone else knew these things, but I didn't.  I can provide more
> details if desired.

One more learning is that git diff compares two source trees and outputs
a diff, while format-patch compares two trees with a common commit and
outputs a diff for each commit.  This is why format-patch can output
file name changes.

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