Merge branch 'js/detach-doc'

diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
index f6ac847507a635759323565be44b088b479d8bf0..49105102dbf899c62833572fdda51cefaed53476 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ directories. This behavior can be forced by --no-index.
        commit relative to the named <commit>.  Typically you
        would want comparison with the latest commit, so if you
        do not give <commit>, it defaults to HEAD.
+       If HEAD does not exist (e.g. unborned branches) and
+       <commit> is not given, it shows all staged changes.
        --staged is a synonym of --cached.
 
 'git diff' [--options] <commit> [--] [<path>...]::