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-rw-r--r--Documentation/git-diff.txt1
-rw-r--r--builtin-diff.c5
2 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index c53eba557d..a2f192fb75 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ forced by --no-index.
commit relative to the named <commit>. Typically you
would want comparison with the latest commit, so if you
do not give <commit>, it defaults to HEAD.
+ --staged is a synonym of --cached.
'git diff' [--options] <commit> [--] [<path>...]::
diff --git a/builtin-diff.c b/builtin-diff.c
index 9c8c295732..82d4ddabd8 100644
--- a/builtin-diff.c
+++ b/builtin-diff.c
@@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static int builtin_diff_index(struct rev_info *revs,
int cached = 0;
while (1 < argc) {
const char *arg = argv[1];
- if (!strcmp(arg, "--cached"))
+ if (!strcmp(arg, "--cached") || !strcmp(arg, "--staged"))
cached = 1;
else
usage(builtin_diff_usage);
@@ -319,7 +319,8 @@ int cmd_diff(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
const char *arg = argv[i];
if (!strcmp(arg, "--"))
break;
- else if (!strcmp(arg, "--cached")) {
+ else if (!strcmp(arg, "--cached") ||
+ !strcmp(arg, "--staged")) {
add_head_to_pending(&rev);
if (!rev.pending.nr)
die("No HEAD commit to compare with (yet)");