From: Jonathan Nieder Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:06:18 +0000 (-0500) Subject: Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff" X-Git-Tag: v1.7.3.2~9 X-Git-Url: https://git.tokkee.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=24757702395ed4c828af585f2d8ba0efda5cf697;p=git.git Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff" Originally "--no-index" mode triggered for untracked files within the tracked tree, but with v1.5.6-rc1~41 (Merge branch 'jc/diff-no-no-index, 2008-05-26) the command was fixed to only implicitly trigger when paths outside the tracked tree are mentioned. Reported-by: Yann Dirson Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt index fe34d4edb..dd1fb3278 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ 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 linkgit: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. +If exactly two paths are given and at least one points outside +the current repository, 'git diff' will compare the two files / +directories. This behavior can be forced by --no-index. 'git diff' [--options] --cached [] [--] [...]::