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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt index 9cd43f105b..2df581c2c9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ If '--cached' is specified, it allows you to ask: For example, let's say that you have worked on your working directory, updated some files in the index and are ready to commit. You want to see exactly -*what* you are going to commit is without having to write a new tree +*what* you are going to commit, without having to write a new tree object and compare it that way, and to do that, you just do git-diff-index --cached HEAD @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ matches my working directory. But doing a "git-diff-index" does: -100644 blob 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 commit.c +100644 blob 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 git-commit.c -You can trivially see that the above is a rename. +You can see easily that the above is a rename. In fact, "git-diff-index --cached" *should* always be entirely equivalent to actually doing a "git-write-tree" and comparing that. Except this one is much |