Diff format?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer at samba.org>
> Cc: bazaar at lists.canonical.com
> Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 00:50:43 +0100
> 
> On Sun, 2011-01-09 at 21:28 +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > "bzr help diff" says, inter alia:
> > 
> >   --format=ARG          Diff format to use.
> > 
> > But I found no description of what ARG could be.  Did I miss
> > something?
> I submitted a merge proposal to improve this a while ago that needs
> some more work before it can be merged.
> 
> At the moment the formats I'm aware of include "default", "git" (with
> bzr-git installed) and "svn" (with bzr-svn installed).

Thanks.

So, if I install bzr-git, I will be able to say "bzr diff --format=git" 
and get output like with "git diff", is that it?  But if so, why do I
need bzr-git for this, the git format being quite similar to what we
have natively in bzr?  What am I missing?