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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)