Created by the Git team for Git's purposes, rather than something documented or proposed for wider adoption.
Other SCMs can and do use a Git-style diff format, but as there's no defined grammar, there are sometimes important differences. For example, Mercurial's Git-style diffs represent the revisions in a different format than Git's does with different meanings, reuse Git "index" lines for binary files but include SHAs of the file contents instead of any sort of revision, and have a header block that should be stripped out before sending to a Git-style diff parser.
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Created by the Git team for Git's purposes, rather than something documented or proposed for wider adoption.
Other SCMs can and do use a Git-style diff format, but as there's no defined grammar, there are sometimes important differences. For example, Mercurial's Git-style diffs represent the revisions in a different format than Git's does with different meanings, reuse Git "index" lines for binary files but include SHAs of the file contents instead of any sort of revision, and have a header block that should be stripped out before sending to a Git-style diff parser.