1git-diff(1) 2=========== 3 4NAME 5---- 6git-diff - Show changes between commits, commit and working tree, etc. 7 8 9SYNOPSIS 10-------- 11'git-diff' [ --diff-options ] <ent>{0,2} [<path>...] 12 13DESCRIPTION 14----------- 15Show changes between two ents, an ent and the working tree, an 16ent and the index file, or the index file and the working tree. 17The combination of what is compared with what is determined by 18the number of ents given to the command. 19 20`----------------`--------`-----------------------------`------------------ 21Number of ents Options What's Compared Underlying command 22--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 230 - index file and working tree git-diff-files 241 --cached ent and index file git-diff-index 251 - ent and working tree git-diff-index 262 - two ents git-diff-tree 27--------------------------------------------------------------------------- 28 29OPTIONS 30------- 31--diff-options:: 32 '--diff-options' are passed to the `git-diff-files`, 33 `git-diff-index`, and `git-diff-tree` commands. See the 34 documentation for these commands for description. 35 36<path>...:: 37 The <path> arguments are also passed to `git-diff-\*` 38 commands. 39 40 41Author 42------ 43Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 44 45Documentation 46-------------- 47Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 48 49GIT 50--- 51Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite 52