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| author | Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> | 2007-02-22 21:50:10 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> | 2007-02-22 20:59:55 -0800 |
| commit | d516c2d11945cf13ed3d961fa63817c60b7a566b (patch) | |
| tree | 7d9aa00054be3a60e6ababc94aa0ccaa573b768f /Documentation | |
| parent | f5a92647694f18fb3544060a1a964ac082d072b2 (diff) | |
| download | git-d516c2d11945cf13ed3d961fa63817c60b7a566b.tar.gz git-d516c2d11945cf13ed3d961fa63817c60b7a566b.tar.xz | |
Teach git-diff-files the new option `--no-index`
With this flag and given two paths, git-diff-files behaves as a GNU diff
lookalike (plus the git goodies like --check, colour, etc.). This flag
is also available in git-diff. It also works outside of a git repository.
In addition, if git-diff{,-files} is called without revision or stage
parameter, and with exactly two paths at least one of which is not tracked,
the default is --no-index.
So, you can now say
git diff /etc/inittab /etc/fstab
and it actually works!
This also unifies the duplicated argument parsing between cmd_diff_files()
and builtin_diff_files().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-diff-files.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-diff.txt | 4 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt index 7248b35d9..b78c4c64f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-diff-files - Compares files in the working tree and the index SYNOPSIS -------- -'git-diff-files' [-q] [-0|-1|-2|-3|-c|--cc] [<common diff options>] [<path>...] +'git-diff-files' [-q] [-0|-1|-2|-3|-c|--cc|-n|--no-index] [<common diff options>] [<path>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -36,6 +36,9 @@ omit diff output for unmerged entries and just show "Unmerged". diff, similar to the way 'diff-tree' shows a merge commit with these flags. +\-n,\--no-index:: + Compare the two given files / directories. + -q:: Remain silent even on nonexistent files diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt index 6a098df26..12a531d1e 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt @@ -23,6 +23,10 @@ tree and the index file, or the index file and the working tree. further add to the index but you still haven't. You can stage these changes by using gitlink:git-add[1]. + If exactly two paths are given, and at least one is untracked, + compare the two files / directories. This behavior can be + forced by --no-index. + 'git-diff' [--options] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]:: This form is to view the changes you staged for the next |