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diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt index 2fc3eed710..d8fc78fab9 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-diff-index(1) NAME ---- -git-diff-index - Compares content and mode of blobs between the cache and repository +git-diff-index - Compares content and mode of blobs between the index and repository SYNOPSIS @@ -13,10 +13,10 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via a tree -object with the content of the current cache and, optionally +object with the content of the current index and, optionally ignoring the stat state of the file on disk. When paths are specified, compares only those named paths. Otherwise all -entries in the cache are compared. +entries in the index are compared. OPTIONS ------- @@ -49,11 +49,11 @@ Cached Mode ----------- If '--cached' is specified, it allows you to ask: - show me the differences between HEAD and the current cache + show me the differences between HEAD and the current index contents (the ones I'd write with a "git-write-tree") For example, let's say that you have worked on your working directory, updated -some files in the cache and are ready to commit. You want to see eactly +some files in the index and are ready to commit. You want to see eactly *what* you are going to commit is without having to write a new tree object and compare it that way, and to do that, you just do @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ 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" output to a tee, but with a twist. -The twist is that if some file doesn't match the cache, we don't have +The twist is that if some file doesn't match the index, we don't have a backing store thing for it, and we use the magic "all-zero" sha1 to 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 @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ 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. +"git-upate-index" it to make the index be in sync. 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 |