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] [-M] [-C] [-R] [-S<string>] [<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 Output diff in reverse. 31 32-M:: 33 Detect renames. 34 35-C:: 36 Detect copies as well as renames. 37 38-S<string>:: 39 Look for differences that contains the change in <string>. 40 41 42-r:: 43 This flag does not mean anything. It is there only to match 44 git-diff-tree. Unlike git-diff-tree, git-diff-files always looks 45 at all the subdirectories. 46 47 48Output format 49------------- 50include::diff-format.txt[] 51 52 53Author 54------ 55Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 56 57Documentation 58-------------- 59Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 60 61GIT 62--- 63Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 64