git-commit-vandalism/Documentation/git-diff.txt
Junio C Hamano dfa2f22f94 Documentation: git-diff asciidoc table workaround.
The table facility was nice in rendering HTML but was disastrous
for man page.  Reword the text and do not use table for now.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2005-12-05 00:22:01 -08:00

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git-diff(1)
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NAME
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git-diff - Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc.
SYNOPSIS
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'git-diff' [ --diff-options ] <ent>{0,2} [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
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Show changes between two ents, an ent and the working tree, an
ent and the index file, or the index file and the working tree.
The combination of what is compared with what is determined by
the number of ents given to the command.
* When no <ent> is given, the working tree and the index
file is compared, using `git-diff-files`.
* When one <ent> is given, the working tree and the named
tree is compared, using `git-diff-index`. The option
`--cached` can be given to compare the index file and
the named tree.
* When two <ent>s are given, these two trees are compared
using `git-diff-tree`.
OPTIONS
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--diff-options::
'--diff-options' are passed to the `git-diff-files`,
`git-diff-index`, and `git-diff-tree` commands. See the
documentation for these commands for description.
<path>...::
The <path> arguments are also passed to `git-diff-\*`
commands.
Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation
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Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
GIT
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite