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 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-O<orderfile>:: 50 Output the patch in the order specified in the 51 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. 52 53-r:: 54 This flag does not mean anything. It is there only to match 55 git-diff-tree. Unlike git-diff-tree, git-diff-files always looks 56 at all the subdirectories. 57 58 59Output format 60------------- 61include::diff-format.txt[] 62 63 64Author 65------ 66Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 67 68Documentation 69-------------- 70Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 71 72GIT 73--- 74Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 75