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With this flag and given two paths, git-diff-files behaves as a GNU diff
lookalike (plus the git goodies like --check, colour, etc.). This flag
is also available in git-diff. It also works outside of a git repository.
In addition, if git-diff{,-files} is called without revision or stage
parameter, and with exactly two paths at least one of which is not tracked,
the default is --no-index.
So, you can now say
git diff /etc/inittab /etc/fstab
and it actually works!
This also unifies the duplicated argument parsing between cmd_diff_files()
and builtin_diff_files().
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
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git-diff-files(1)
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NAME
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git-diff-files - Compares files in the working tree and the index
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SYNOPSIS
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--------
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'git-diff-files' [-q] [-0|-1|-2|-3|-c|--cc|-n|--no-index] [<common diff options>] [<path>...]
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DESCRIPTION
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Compares the files in the working tree and the index. When paths
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are specified, compares only those named paths. Otherwise all
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entries in the index are compared. The output format is the
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same as "git-diff-index" and "git-diff-tree".
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OPTIONS
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-------
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include::diff-options.txt[]
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-1 -2 -3 or --base --ours --theirs, and -0::
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Diff against the "base" version, "our branch" or "their
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branch" respectively. With these options, diffs for
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merged entries are not shown.
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+
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The default is to diff against our branch (-2) and the
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cleanly resolved paths. The option -0 can be given to
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omit diff output for unmerged entries and just show "Unmerged".
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-c,--cc::
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This compares stage 2 (our branch), stage 3 (their
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branch) and the working tree file and outputs a combined
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diff, similar to the way 'diff-tree' shows a merge
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commit with these flags.
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\-n,\--no-index::
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Compare the two given files / directories.
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-q::
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Remain silent even on nonexistent files
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Output format
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include::diff-format.txt[]
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Author
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------
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Documentation
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Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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GIT
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---
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Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite
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