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] [-R] [-B] [-M] [-C] [--find-copies-harder] [-O<orderfile>] [-S<string>] [--pickaxe-all] [<path>...] 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 Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from on-disk files 31 to cache contents. 32 33-B:: 34 Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. 35 36-M:: 37 Detect renames. 38 39-C:: 40 Detect copies as well as renames. 41 42--find-copies-harder:: 43 By default, -C option finds copies only if the original 44 file of the copy was modified in the same changeset for 45 performance reasons. This flag makes the command 46 inspect unmodified files as candidates for the source of 47 copy. This is a very expensive operation for large 48 projects, so use it with caution. 49 50-S<string>:: 51 Look for differences that contains the change in <string>. 52 53--pickaxe-all:: 54 When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that 55 changeset, not just the files that contains the change 56 in <string>. 57 58-O<orderfile>:: 59 Output the patch in the order specified in the 60 <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per line. 61 62-r:: 63 This flag does not mean anything. It is there only to match 64 git-diff-tree. Unlike git-diff-tree, git-diff-files always looks 65 at all the subdirectories. 66 67 68Output format 69------------- 70include::diff-format.txt[] 71 72 73Author 74------ 75Written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> 76 77Documentation 78-------------- 79Documentation by David Greaves, Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. 80 81GIT 82--- 83Part of the link:git.html[git] suite 84