| git-diff(1) | |
| =========== | |
| NAME | |
| ---- | |
| git-diff - Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc. | |
| SYNOPSIS | |
| -------- | |
| 'git-diff' [ --diff-options ] <ent>{0,2} [<path>...] | |
| DESCRIPTION | |
| ----------- | |
| Show changes between two ents, an ent and the working tree, an | |
| ent and the index file, or the index file and the working tree. | |
| The combination of what is compared with what is determined by | |
| the number of ents given to the command. | |
| `----------------`--------`-----------------------------`------------------ | |
| Number of ents Options What's Compared Underlying command | |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| 0 - index file and working tree git-diff-files | |
| 1 --cached ent and index file git-diff-index | |
| 1 - ent and working tree git-diff-index | |
| 2 - two ents git-diff-tree | |
| --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |
| OPTIONS | |
| ------- | |
| --diff-options:: | |
| '--diff-options' are passed to the `git-diff-files`, | |
| `git-diff-index`, and `git-diff-tree` commands. See the | |
| documentation for these commands for description. | |
| <path>...:: | |
| The <path> arguments are also passed to `git-diff-\*` | |
| commands. | |
| Author | |
| ------ | |
| Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> | |
| Documentation | |
| -------------- | |
| Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. | |
| GIT | |
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| Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite | |