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authorJonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>2008-06-30 01:09:04 -0500
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2008-07-01 17:20:15 -0700
commitb1889c36d85514e5e70462294c561a02c2edfe2b (patch)
tree9a171d7e3fb8063c239a2c9c4dcec744a202de07 /Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
parent46e56e81b3bc91af7071809fbda8dcdec22c4cb1 (diff)
downloadgit-b1889c36d85514e5e70462294c561a02c2edfe2b.tar.gz
Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using "git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.) This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command, program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are made to use the dashless form. The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched versions are identical. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
index f6e844fe61..2474745254 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ git-diff-index - Compares content and mode of blobs between the index and reposi
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-diff-index' [-m] [--cached] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...]
+'git diff-index' [-m] [--cached] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
@@ -57,20 +57,20 @@ some files in the index and are ready to commit. You want to see exactly
*what* you are going to commit, without having to write a new tree
object and compare it that way, and to do that, you just do
- git-diff-index --cached HEAD
+ git diff-index --cached HEAD
Example: let's say I had renamed `commit.c` to `git-commit.c`, and I had
done an "git-update-index" to make that effective in the index file.
-"git-diff-files" wouldn't show anything at all, since the index file
+"git diff-files" wouldn't show anything at all, since the index file
matches my working directory. But doing a "git-diff-index" does:
- torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git-diff-index --cached HEAD
+ torvalds@ppc970:~/git> git diff-index --cached HEAD
-100644 blob 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 commit.c
+100644 blob 4161aecc6700a2eb579e842af0b7f22b98443f74 git-commit.c
You can see easily that the above is a rename.
-In fact, "git-diff-index --cached" *should* always be entirely equivalent to
+In fact, "git diff-index --cached" *should* always be entirely equivalent to
actually doing a "git-write-tree" and comparing that. Except this one is much
nicer for the case where you just want to check where you are.
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ show that. So let's say that you have edited `kernel/sched.c`, but
have not actually done a "git-update-index" on it yet - there is no
"object" associated with the new state, and you get:
- torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git-diff-index HEAD
+ torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git diff-index HEAD
*100644->100664 blob 7476bb......->000000...... kernel/sched.c
i.e., it shows that the tree has changed, and that `kernel/sched.c` has is