git-commit-vandalism/Documentation/git-diff-files.txt
Junio C Hamano 57fe64a40d [PATCH] diff overhaul
This cleans up the way calls are made into the diff core from diff-tree
family and diff-helper.  Earlier, these programs had "if
(generating_patch)" sprinkled all over the place, but those ugliness are
gone and handled uniformly from the diff core, even when not generating
patch format.

This also allowed diff-cache and diff-files to acquire -R
(reverse) option to generate diff in reverse.  Users of
diff-tree can swap two trees easily so I did not add -R there.

[ Linus' note: I'll add -R to "diff-tree" too, since a "commit
  diff" doesn't have another tree to switch around: the other
  tree is always the parent(s) of the commit ]

Also -M<digits-as-mantissa> suggestion made by Linus has been
implemented.

Documentation updates are also included.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-19 22:33:07 -07:00

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git-diff-files(1)
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v0.1, May 2005
NAME
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git-diff-files - Compares files in the working tree and the cache
SYNOPSIS
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'git-diff-files' [-p] [-q] [-r] [-z] [-M] [-R] [<pattern>...]
DESCRIPTION
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Compares the files in the working tree and the cache. When paths
are specified, compares only those named paths. Otherwise all
entries in the cache are compared. The output format is the
same as "git-diff-cache" and "git-diff-tree".
OPTIONS
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-p::
generate patch (see section on generating patches).
-q::
Remain silent even on nonexisting files
-R::
Output diff in reverse.
-M::
Detect renames; implies -p.
-r::
This flag does not mean anything. It is there only to match
git-diff-tree. Unlike git-diff-tree, git-diff-files always looks
at all the subdirectories.
Output format
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include::diff-format.txt[]
Author
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Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation
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Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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