X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fgit-diff-index.txt;h=2df581c2c9e598c676fcb95c35c91209d15562ca;hb=f3307deeec4b75001f543b4e7ca5a51f79a30e63;hp=5d2096a4c67e07a697f7d57b67aa1900697b406c;hpb=3d990f110c2e5b8df83f6ab3ef83497f43c7fd47;p=git.git diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt index 5d2096a4c..2df581c2c 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt @@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ If '--cached' is specified, it allows you to ask: For example, let's say that you have worked on your working directory, updated some files in the index and are ready to commit. You want to see exactly -*what* you are going to commit is without having to write a new tree +*what* you are going to commit, without having to write a new tree object and compare it that way, and to do that, you just do git-diff-index --cached HEAD @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ matches my working directory. But doing a "git-diff-index" does: -100644 blob 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 commit.c +100644 blob 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 git-commit.c -You can trivially see that the above is a rename. +You can see easily that the above is a rename. In fact, "git-diff-index --cached" *should* always be entirely equivalent to actually doing a "git-write-tree" and comparing that. Except this one is much @@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ have not actually done a "git-update-index" on it yet - there is no torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git-diff-index HEAD *100644->100664 blob 7476bb......->000000...... kernel/sched.c -ie it shows that the tree has changed, and that `kernel/sched.c` has is +i.e., it shows that the tree has changed, and that `kernel/sched.c` has is not up-to-date and may contain new stuff. The all-zero sha1 means that to get the real diff, you need to look at the object in the working directory directly rather than do an object-to-object diff.