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diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt index f6e844fe61..2474745254 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-diff-index - Compares content and mode of blobs between the index and reposi SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-diff-index' [-m] [--cached] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...] +'git diff-index' [-m] [--cached] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -57,20 +57,20 @@ some files in the index and are ready to commit. You want to see exactly *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 + git diff-index --cached HEAD Example: let's say I had renamed `commit.c` to `git-commit.c`, and I had done an "git-update-index" to make that effective in the index file. -"git-diff-files" wouldn't show anything at all, since the index file +"git diff-files" wouldn't show anything at all, since the index file matches my working directory. But doing a "git-diff-index" does: - torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git-diff-index --cached HEAD + torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git diff-index --cached HEAD -100644 blob 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 commit.c +100644 blob 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 git-commit.c You can see easily that the above is a rename. -In fact, "git-diff-index --cached" *should* always be entirely equivalent to +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 nicer for the case where you just want to check where you are. @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ show that. So let's say that you have edited `kernel/sched.c`, but have not actually done a "git-update-index" on it yet - there is no "object" associated with the new state, and you get: - torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git-diff-index HEAD + torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git diff-index HEAD *100644->100664 blob 7476bb......->000000...... kernel/sched.c i.e., it shows that the tree has changed, and that `kernel/sched.c` has is |