Documentation/git-diff.txt

   1 git-diff(1)
   2 ===========
   3
   4 NAME
   5 ----
   6 git-diff - Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc.
   7
   8
   9 SYNOPSIS
  10 --------
  11 'git-diff' [ --diff-options ] <ent>{0,2} [<path>...]
  12
  13 DESCRIPTION
  14 -----------
  15 Show changes between two ents, an ent and the working tree, an
  16 ent and the index file, or the index file and the working tree.
  17 The combination of what is compared with what is determined by
  18 the number of ents given to the command.
  19
  20 `----------------`--------`-----------------------------`------------------
  21 Number of ents    Options  What's Compared               Underlying command
  22 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  23 0                 -        index file and working tree   git-diff-files
  24 1                 --cached ent and index file            git-diff-index
  25 1                 -        ent and working tree          git-diff-index
  26 2                 -        two ents                      git-diff-tree
  27 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
  28
  29 OPTIONS
  30 -------
  31 --diff-options::
  32         '--diff-options' are passed to the `git-diff-files`,
  33         `git-diff-index`, and `git-diff-tree` commands.  See the
  34         documentation for these commands for description.
  35
  36 <path>...::
  37         The <path> arguments are also passed to `git-diff-\*`
  38         commands.
  39
  40
  41 Author
  42 ------
  43 Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
  44
  45 Documentation
  46 --------------
  47 Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
  48
  49 GIT
  50 ---
  51 Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
  52