git-diff-files(1) ================= v0.1, May 2005 NAME ---- git-diff-files - Compares files in the working tree and the cache SYNOPSIS -------- 'git-diff-files' [-p] [-q] [-r] [-z] [-R] [-B] [-M] [-C] [--find-copies-harder] [-O] [-S] [--pickaxe-all] [...] DESCRIPTION ----------- 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 ------- -p:: generate patch (see section on generating patches). -q:: Remain silent even on nonexisting files -R:: Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from on-disk files to cache contents. -B:: Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. -M:: Detect renames. -C:: Detect copies as well as renames. --find-copies-harder:: By default, -C option finds copies only if the original file of the copy was modified in the same changeset for performance reasons. This flag makes the command inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of copy. This is a very expensive operation for large projects, so use it with caution. -S:: Look for differences that contains the change in . --pickaxe-all:: When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that changeset, not just the files that contains the change in . -O:: Output the patch in the order specified in the , which has one shell glob pattern per line. -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 ------------- include::diff-format.txt[] Author ------ Written by Linus Torvalds Documentation -------------- Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list . GIT --- Part of the link:git.html[git] suite