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authorJohannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>2005-08-05 17:05:02 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-08-05 23:07:00 -0700
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[PATCH] Assorted documentation patches
[jc: Johannes spent time and effort to see how consistent our use of terminilogy is, and as a byproduct made these corrections not related to the terminology unification. I really appreciate it.] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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@@ -50,13 +50,13 @@ Cached Mode
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If '--cached' is specified, it allows you to ask:
- show me the differences between HEAD and the current index
+ show me the differences between HEAD and the current cache
contents (the ones I'd write with a "git-write-tree")
-For example, let's say that you have worked on your index file, and are
-ready to commit. You want to see eactly *what* you are going to commit is
-without having to write a new tree object and compare it that way, and to
-do that, you just do
+For example, let's say that you have worked on your working directory, updated
+some files in the cache and are ready to commit. You want to see eactly
+*what* you are going to commit is without having to write a new tree
+object and compare it that way, and to do that, you just do
git-diff-cache --cached $(cat .git/HEAD)