1git-diff-files(1) 2================= 3v0.1, May 2005 4 5NAME 6---- 7git-diff-files - Compares files in the working tree and the cache 8 9 10SYNOPSIS 11-------- 12'git-diff-files' [-p] [-q] [-r] [-z] [-B] [-M] [-C] [-R] [-O<orderfile>] [-S<string>] [--pickaxe-all] [<pattern>...] 13 14DESCRIPTION 15----------- 16Compares the files in the working tree and the cache. When paths 17are specified, compares only those named paths. Otherwise all 18entries in the cache are compared. The output format is the 19same as "git-diff-cache" and "git-diff-tree". 20 21OPTIONS 22------- 23-p:: 24 generate patch (see section on generating patches). 25 26-q:: 27 Remain silent even on nonexisting files 28 29-R:: 30 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from on-disk files 31 to cache contents. 32 33-B:: 34 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. 35 36-M:: 37 Detect renames. 38 39-C:: 40 Detect copies as well as renames. 41 42-S<string>:: 43 Look for differences that contains the change in <string>. 44 45--pickaxe-all:: 46 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that 47 changeset, not just the files that contains the change 48 in <string>. 49 50-O<orderfile>:: 51 Output the patch in the order specified in the 52 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. 53 54-r:: 55 This flag does not mean anything. It is there only to match 56 git-diff-tree. Unlike git-diff-tree, git-diff-files always looks 57 at all the subdirectories. 58 59 60Output format 61------------- 62include::diff-format.txt[] 63 64 65Author 66------ 67Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 68 69Documentation 70-------------- 71Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 72 73GIT 74--- 75Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 76