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] [<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 This flag does not mean anything. It is there only to match 31 git-diff-tree. Unlike git-diff-tree, git-diff-files always looks 32 at all the subdirectories. 33 34 35Output format 36------------- 37include::diff-format.txt[] 38 39 40Author 41------ 42Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 43 44Documentation 45-------------- 46Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 47 48GIT 49--- 50Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 51