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] [-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 Output diff in reverse. 31 32-B:: 33 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. 34 35-M:: 36 Detect renames. 37 38-C:: 39 Detect copies as well as renames. 40 41-S<string>:: 42 Look for differences that contains the change in <string>. 43 44--pickaxe-all:: 45 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that 46 changeset, not just the files that contains the change 47 in <string>. 48 49-r:: 50 This flag does not mean anything. It is there only to match 51 git-diff-tree. Unlike git-diff-tree, git-diff-files always looks 52 at all the subdirectories. 53 54 55Output format 56------------- 57include::diff-format.txt[] 58 59 60Author 61------ 62Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 63 64Documentation 65-------------- 66Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 67 68GIT 69--- 70Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 71