git-diff-index(1)
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-v0.1, May 2005
NAME
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a "git-write-tree" + "git-diff-tree". Thus that's the default mode.
The non-cached version asks the question:
- show me the differences between HEAD and the currently checked out
- tree - index contents _and_ files that aren't up-to-date
+ show me the differences between HEAD and the currently checked out
+ tree - index contents _and_ files that aren't up-to-date
which is obviously a very useful question too, since that tells you what
you *could* commit. Again, the output matches the "git-diff-tree -r"
get the real diff, you need to look at the object in the working directory
directly rather than do an object-to-object diff.
-NOTE! As with other commands of this type, "git-diff-index" does not
+NOTE: As with other commands of this type, "git-diff-index" does not
actually look at the contents of the file at all. So maybe
`kernel/sched.c` hasn't actually changed, and it's just that you
touched it. In either case, it's a note that you need to
"git-upate-cache" it to make the cache be in sync.
-NOTE 2! You can have a mixture of files show up as "has been updated"
+NOTE: You can have a mixture of files show up as "has been updated"
and "is still dirty in the working directory" together. You can always
tell which file is in which state, since the "has been updated" ones
show a valid sha1, and the "not in sync with the index" ones will