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GIT-DIFF-INDEX(1) Git Manual GIT-DIFF-INDEX(1)
NAME
git-diff-index - Compares content and mode of blobs between the index and repository
SYNOPSIS
git diff-index [-m] [--cached] [<common diff options>] <tree-ish> [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via a tree 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 index are compared.
OPTIONS
-p, -u, --patch
Generate patch (see section on generating patches).
-U<n>, --unified=<n>
Generate diffs with <n> lines of context instead of the usual three. Implies -p.
--raw
Generate the raw format. This is the default.
--patch-with-raw
Synonym for -p --raw.
--minimal
Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is produced.
--patience
Generate a diff using the "patience diff" algorithm.
--histogram
Generate a diff using the "histogram diff" algorithm.
--diff-algorithm={patience|minimal|histogram|myers}
Choose a diff algorithm. The variants are as follows:
default, myers
The basic greedy diff algorithm. Currently, this is the default.
minimal
Spend extra time to make sure the smallest possible diff is produced.
patience
Use "patience diff" algorithm when generating patches.
histogram
This algorithm extends the patience algorithm to "support low-occurrence common elements".
For instance, if you configured diff.algorithm variable to a non-default value and want to use
the default one, then you have to use --diff-algorithm=default option.
--stat[=<width>[,<name-width>[,<count>]]]
Generate a diffstat. By default, as much space as necessary will be used for the filename part,
and the rest for the graph part. Maximum width defaults to terminal width, or 80 columns if not
connected to a terminal, and can be overridden by <width>. The width of the filename part can be
limited by giving another width <name-width> after a comma. The width of the graph part can be
limited by using --stat-graph-width=<width> (affects all commands generating a stat graph) or by
setting diff.statGraphWidth=<width> (does not affect git format-patch). By giving a third
parameter <count>, you can limit the output to the first <count> lines, followed by ... if there
are more.
These parameters can also be set individually with --stat-width=<width>,
--stat-name-width=<name-width> and --stat-count=<count>.
--numstat
Similar to --stat, but shows number of added and deleted lines in decimal notation and pathname
without abbreviation, to make it more machine friendly. For binary files, outputs two - instead
of saying 0 0.
--shortstat
Output only the last line of the --stat format containing total number of modified files, as well
as number of added and deleted lines.
--dirstat[=<param1,param2,...>]
Output the distribution of relative amount of changes for each sub-directory. The behavior of
--dirstat can be customized by passing it a comma separated list of parameters. The defaults are
controlled by the diff.dirstat configuration variable (see git-config(1)). The following
parameters are available:
changes
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the lines that have been removed from the source, or
added to the destination. This ignores the amount of pure code movements within a file. In
other words, rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes. This is the
default behavior when no parameter is given.
lines
Compute the dirstat numbers by doing the regular line-based diff analysis, and summing the
removed/added line counts. (For binary files, count 64-byte chunks instead, since binary
files have no natural concept of lines). This is a more expensive --dirstat behavior than the
changes behavior, but it does count rearranged lines within a file as much as other changes.
The resulting output is consistent with what you get from the other --*stat options.
files
Compute the dirstat numbers by counting the number of files changed. Each changed file counts
equally in the dirstat analysis. This is the computationally cheapest --dirstat behavior,
since it does not have to look at the file contents at all.
cumulative
Count changes in a child directory for the parent directory as well. Note that when using
cumulative, the sum of the percentages reported may exceed 100%. The default (non-cumulative)
behavior can be specified with the noncumulative parameter.
<limit>
An integer parameter specifies a cut-off percent (3% by default). Directories contributing
less than this percentage of the changes are not shown in the output.
Example: The following will count changed files, while ignoring directories with less than 10% of
the total amount of changed files, and accumulating child directory counts in the parent
directories: --dirstat=files,10,cumulative.
--summary
Output a condensed summary of extended header information such as creations, renames and mode
changes.
--patch-with-stat
Synonym for -p --stat.
-z
When --raw, --numstat, --name-only or --name-status has been given, do not munge pathnames and
use NULs as output field terminators.
Without this option, each pathname output will have TAB, LF, double quotes, and backslash
characters replaced with \t, \n, \", and \\, respectively, and the pathname will be enclosed in
double quotes if any of those replacements occurred.
--name-only
Show only names of changed files.
--name-status
Show only names and status of changed files. See the description of the --diff-filter option on
what the status letters mean.
--submodule[=<format>]
Specify how differences in submodules are shown. When --submodule or --submodule=log is given,
the log format is used. This format lists the commits in the range like git-submodule(1) summary
does. Omitting the --submodule option or specifying --submodule=short, uses the short format.
This format just shows the names of the commits at the beginning and end of the range. Can be
tweaked via the diff.submodule configuration variable.
--color[=<when>]
Show colored diff. --color (i.e. without =<when>) is the same as --color=always. <when> can be
one of always, never, or auto.
--no-color
Turn off colored diff. It is the same as --color=never.
--word-diff[=<mode>]
Show a word diff, using the <mode> to delimit changed words. By default, words are delimited by
whitespace; see --word-diff-regex below. The <mode> defaults to plain, and must be one of:
color
Highlight changed words using only colors. Implies --color.
plain
Show words as [-removed-] and {+added+}. Makes no attempts to escape the delimiters if they
appear in the input, so the output may be ambiguous.
porcelain
Use a special line-based format intended for script consumption. Added/removed/unchanged runs
are printed in the usual unified diff format, starting with a +/-/` ` character at the
beginning of the line and extending to the end of the line. Newlines in the input are
represented by a tilde ~ on a line of its own.
none
Disable word diff again.
Note that despite the name of the first mode, color is used to highlight the changed parts in all
modes if enabled.
--word-diff-regex=<regex>
Use <regex> to decide what a word is, instead of considering runs of non-whitespace to be a word.
Also implies --word-diff unless it was already enabled.
Every non-overlapping match of the <regex> is considered a word. Anything between these matches
is considered whitespace and ignored(!) for the purposes of finding differences. You may want to
append |[^[:space:]] to your regular expression to make sure that it matches all non-whitespace
characters. A match that contains a newline is silently truncated(!) at the newline.
The regex can also be set via a diff driver or configuration option, see gitattributes(1) or git-config(1). gitconfig(1).
config(1). Giving it explicitly overrides any diff driver or configuration setting. Diff drivers
override configuration settings.
--color-words[=<regex>]
Equivalent to --word-diff=color plus (if a regex was specified) --word-diff-regex=<regex>.
--no-renames
Turn off rename detection, even when the configuration file gives the default to do so.
--check
Warn if changes introduce whitespace errors. What are considered whitespace errors is controlled
by core.whitespace configuration. By default, trailing whitespaces (including lines that solely
consist of whitespaces) and a space character that is immediately followed by a tab character
inside the initial indent of the line are considered whitespace errors. Exits with non-zero
status if problems are found. Not compatible with --exit-code.
--full-index
Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full pre- and post-image blob object names
on the "index" line when generating patch format output.
--binary
In addition to --full-index, output a binary diff that can be applied with git-apply.
--abbrev[=<n>]
Instead of showing the full 40-byte hexadecimal object name in diff-raw format output and
diff-tree header lines, show only a partial prefix. This is independent of the --full-index
option above, which controls the diff-patch output format. Non default number of digits can be
specified with --abbrev=<n>.
-B[<n>][/<m>], --break-rewrites[=[<n>][/<m>]]
Break complete rewrite changes into pairs of delete and create. This serves two purposes:
It affects the way a change that amounts to a total rewrite of a file not as a series of deletion
and insertion mixed together with a very few lines that happen to match textually as the context,
but as a single deletion of everything old followed by a single insertion of everything new, and
the number m controls this aspect of the -B option (defaults to 60%). -B/70% specifies that less
than 30% of the original should remain in the result for Git to consider it a total rewrite (i.e.
otherwise the resulting patch will be a series of deletion and insertion mixed together with
context lines).
When used with -M, a totally-rewritten file is also considered as the source of a rename (usually
-M only considers a file that disappeared as the source of a rename), and the number n controls
this aspect of the -B option (defaults to 50%). -B20% specifies that a change with addition and
deletion compared to 20% or more of the file's size are eligible for being picked up as a
possible source of a rename to another file.
-M[<n>], --find-renames[=<n>]
Detect renames. If n is specified, it is a threshold on the similarity index (i.e. amount of
addition/deletions compared to the file's size). For example, -M90% means Git should consider a
delete/add pair to be a rename if more than 90% of the file hasn't changed. Without a % sign, the
number is to be read as a fraction, with a decimal point before it. I.e., -M5 becomes 0.5, and is
thus the same as -M50%. Similarly, -M05 is the same as -M5%. To limit detection to exact renames,
use -M100%.
-C[<n>], --find-copies[=<n>]
Detect copies as well as renames. See also --find-copies-harder. If n is specified, it has the
same meaning as for -M<n>.
--find-copies-harder
For performance reasons, by default, -C option finds copies only if the original file of the copy
was modified in the same changeset. This flag makes the command inspect unmodified files as
candidates for the source of copy. This is a very expensive operation for large projects, so use
it with caution. Giving more than one -C option has the same effect.
-D, --irreversible-delete
Omit the preimage for deletes, i.e. print only the header but not the diff between the preimage
and /dev/null. The resulting patch is not meant to be applied with patch nor git apply; this is
solely for people who want to just concentrate on reviewing the text after the change. In
addition, the output obviously lack enough information to apply such a patch in reverse, even
manually, hence the name of the option.
When used together with -B, omit also the preimage in the deletion part of a delete/create pair.
-l<num>
The -M and -C options require O(n^2) processing time where n is the number of potential
rename/copy targets. This option prevents rename/copy detection from running if the number of
rename/copy targets exceeds the specified number.
--diff-filter=[(A|C|D|M|R|T|U|X|B)...[*]]
Select only files that are Added (A), Copied (C), Deleted (D), Modified (M), Renamed (R), have
their type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (T), are Unmerged (U), are
Unknown (X), or have had their pairing Broken (B). Any combination of the filter characters
(including none) can be used. When * (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all paths are
selected if there is any file that matches other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
-S<string>
Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of <string>. Note that this is
different than the string simply appearing in diff output; see the pickaxe entry in
gitdiffcore(7) for more details.
-G<regex>
Look for differences whose added or removed line matches the given <regex>.
--pickaxe-all
When -S or -G finds a change, show all the changes in that changeset, not just the files that
contain the change in <string>.
--pickaxe-regex
Make the <string> not a plain string but an extended POSIX regex to match.
-O<orderfile>
Output the patch in the order specified in the <orderfile>, which has one shell glob pattern per
line.
-R
Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or on-disk file to tree contents.
--relative[=<path>]
When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be told to exclude changes outside the
directory and show pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are not in a subdirectory
(e.g. in a bare repository), you can name which subdirectory to make the output relative to by
giving a <path> as an argument.
-a, --text
Treat all files as text.
--ignore-space-at-eol
Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
-b, --ignore-space-change
Ignore changes in amount of whitespace. This ignores whitespace at line end, and considers all
other sequences of one or more whitespace characters to be equivalent.
-w, --ignore-all-space
Ignore whitespace when comparing lines. This ignores differences even if one line has whitespace
where the other line has none.
--inter-hunk-context=<lines>
Show the context between diff hunks, up to the specified number of lines, thereby fusing hunks
that are close to each other.
-W, --function-context
Show whole surrounding functions of changes.
--exit-code
Make the program exit with codes similar to diff(1). That is, it exits with 1 if there were
differences and 0 means no differences.
--quiet
Disable all output of the program. Implies --exit-code.
--ext-diff
Allow an external diff helper to be executed. If you set an external diff driver with
gitattributes(5), you need to use this option with git-log(1) and friends.
--no-ext-diff
Disallow external diff drivers.
--textconv, --no-textconv
Allow (or disallow) external text conversion filters to be run when comparing binary files. See
gitattributes(5) for details. Because textconv filters are typically a one-way conversion, the
resulting diff is suitable for human consumption, but cannot be applied. For this reason,
textconv filters are enabled by default only for git-diff(1) and git-log(1), but not for git-format-patch(1) gitformat-patch(1)
format-patch(1) or diff plumbing commands.
--ignore-submodules[=<when>]
Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation. <when> can be either "none", "untracked",
"dirty" or "all", which is the default Using "none" will consider the submodule modified when it
either contains untracked or modified files or its HEAD differs from the commit recorded in the
superproject and can be used to override any settings of the ignore option in git-config(1) or
gitmodules(5). When "untracked" is used submodules are not considered dirty when they only
contain untracked content (but they are still scanned for modified content). Using "dirty"
ignores all changes to the work tree of submodules, only changes to the commits stored in the
superproject are shown (this was the behavior until 1.7.0). Using "all" hides all changes to
submodules.
--src-prefix=<prefix>
Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".
--dst-prefix=<prefix>
Show the given destination prefix instead of "b/".
--no-prefix
Do not show any source or destination prefix.
For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also gitdiffcore(7).
<tree-ish>
The id of a tree object to diff against.
--cached
do not consider the on-disk file at all
-m
By default, files recorded in the index but not checked out are reported as deleted. This flag
makes git diff-index say that all non-checked-out files are up to date.
RAW OUTPUT FORMAT
The raw output format from "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git diff --raw"
are very similar.
These commands all compare two sets of things; what is compared differs:
git-diff-index <tree-ish>
compares the <tree-ish> and the files on the filesystem.
git-diff-index --cached <tree-ish>
compares the <tree-ish> and the index.
git-diff-tree [-r] <tree-ish-1> <tree-ish-2> [<pattern>...]
compares the trees named by the two arguments.
git-diff-files [<pattern>...]
compares the index and the files on the filesystem.
The "git-diff-tree" command begins its output by printing the hash of what is being compared. After
that, all the commands print one output line per changed file.
An output line is formatted this way:
in-place edit :100644 100644 bcd1234... 0123456... M file0
copy-edit :100644 100644 abcd123... 1234567... C68 file1 file2
rename-edit :100644 100644 abcd123... 1234567... R86 file1 file3
create :000000 100644 0000000... 1234567... A file4
delete :100644 000000 1234567... 0000000... D file5
unmerged :000000 000000 0000000... 0000000... U file6
That is, from the left to the right:
1. a colon.
2. mode for "src"; 000000 if creation or unmerged.
3. a space.
4. mode for "dst"; 000000 if deletion or unmerged.
5. a space.
6. sha1 for "src"; 0{40} if creation or unmerged.
7. a space.
8. sha1 for "dst"; 0{40} if creation, unmerged or "look at work tree".
9. a space.
10. status, followed by optional "score" number.
11. a tab or a NUL when -z option is used.
12. path for "src"
13. a tab or a NUL when -z option is used; only exists for C or R.
14. path for "dst"; only exists for C or R.
15. an LF or a NUL when -z option is used, to terminate the record.
Possible status letters are:
• A: addition of a file
• C: copy of a file into a new one
• D: deletion of a file
• M: modification of the contents or mode of a file
• R: renaming of a file
• T: change in the type of the file
• U: file is unmerged (you must complete the merge before it can be committed)
• X: "unknown" change type (most probably a bug, please report it)
Status letters C and R are always followed by a score (denoting the percentage of similarity between
the source and target of the move or copy), and are the only ones to be so.
<sha1> is shown as all 0's if a file is new on the filesystem and it is out of sync with the index.
Example:
:100644 100644 5be4a4...... 000000...... M file.c
When -z option is not used, TAB, LF, and backslash characters in pathnames are represented as \t, \n,
and \\, respectively.
DIFF FORMAT FOR MERGES
"git-diff-tree", "git-diff-files" and "git-diff --raw" can take -c or --cc option to generate diff
output also for merge commits. The output differs from the format described above in the following
way:
1. there is a colon for each parent
2. there are more "src" modes and "src" sha1
3. status is concatenated status characters for each parent
4. no optional "score" number
5. single path, only for "dst"
Example:
::100644 100644 100644 fabadb8... cc95eb0... 4866510... MM describe.c
Note that combined diff lists only files which were modified from all parents.
GENERATING PATCHES WITH -P
When "git-diff-index", "git-diff-tree", or "git-diff-files" are run with a -p option, "git diff"
without the --raw option, or "git log" with the "-p" option, they do not produce the output described
above; instead they produce a patch file. You can customize the creation of such patches via the
GIT_EXTERNAL_DIFF and the GIT_DIFF_OPTS environment variables.
What the -p option produces is slightly different from the traditional diff format:
1. It is preceded with a "git diff" header that looks like this:
diff --git a/file1 b/file2
The a/ and b/ filenames are the same unless rename/copy is involved. Especially, even for a
creation or a deletion, /dev/null is not used in place of the a/ or b/ filenames.
When rename/copy is involved, file1 and file2 show the name of the source file of the rename/copy
and the name of the file that rename/copy produces, respectively.
2. It is followed by one or more extended header lines:
old mode <mode>
new mode <mode>
deleted file mode <mode>
new file mode <mode>
copy from <path>
copy to <path>
rename from <path>
rename to <path>
similarity index <number>
dissimilarity index <number>
index <hash>..<hash> <mode>
File modes are printed as 6-digit octal numbers including the file type and file permission bits.
Path names in extended headers do not include the a/ and b/ prefixes.
The similarity index is the percentage of unchanged lines, and the dissimilarity index is the
percentage of changed lines. It is a rounded down integer, followed by a percent sign. The
similarity index value of 100% is thus reserved for two equal files, while 100% dissimilarity
means that no line from the old file made it into the new one.
The index line includes the SHA-1 checksum before and after the change. The <mode> is included if
the file mode does not change; otherwise, separate lines indicate the old and the new mode.
3. TAB, LF, double quote and backslash characters in pathnames are represented as \t, \n, \" and \\,
respectively. If there is need for such substitution then the whole pathname is put in double
quotes.
4. All the file1 files in the output refer to files before the commit, and all the file2 files refer
to files after the commit. It is incorrect to apply each change to each file sequentially. For
example, this patch will swap a and b:
diff --git a/a b/b
rename from a
rename to b
diff --git a/b b/a
rename from b
rename to a
COMBINED DIFF FORMAT
Any diff-generating command can take the `-c` or --cc option to produce a combined diff when showing
a merge. This is the default format when showing merges with git-diff(1) or git-show(1). Note also
that you can give the `-m' option to any of these commands to force generation of diffs with
individual parents of a merge.
A combined diff format looks like this:
diff --combined describe.c
index fabadb8,cc95eb0..4866510
--- a/describe.c
+++ b/describe.c
@@@ -98,20 -98,12 +98,20 @@@
return (a_date > b_date) ? -1 : (a_date == b_date) ? 0 : 1;
}
- static void describe(char *arg)
-static void describe(struct commit *cmit, int last_one)
++static void describe(char *arg, int last_one)
{
+ unsigned char sha1[20];
+ struct commit *cmit;
struct commit_list *list;
static int initialized = 0;
struct commit_name *n;
+ if (get_sha1(arg, sha1) < 0)
+ usage(describe_usage);
+ cmit = lookup_commit_reference(sha1);
+ if (!cmit)
+ usage(describe_usage);
+
if (!initialized) {
initialized = 1;
for_each_ref(get_name);
1. It is preceded with a "git diff" header, that looks like this (when -c option is used):
diff --combined file
or like this (when --cc option is used):
diff --cc file
2. It is followed by one or more extended header lines (this example shows a merge with two
parents):
index <hash>,<hash>..<hash>
mode <mode>,<mode>..<mode>
new file mode <mode>
deleted file mode <mode>,<mode>
The mode <mode>,<mode>..<mode> line appears only if at least one of the <mode> is different from
the rest. Extended headers with information about detected contents movement (renames and copying
detection) are designed to work with diff of two <tree-ish> and are not used by combined diff
format.
3. It is followed by two-line from-file/to-file header
--- a/file
+++ b/file
Similar to two-line header for traditional unified diff format, /dev/null is used to signal
created or deleted files.
4. Chunk header format is modified to prevent people from accidentally feeding it to patch -p1.
Combined diff format was created for review of merge commit changes, and was not meant for apply.
The change is similar to the change in the extended index header:
@@@ <from-file-range> <from-file-range> <to-file-range> @@@
There are (number of parents + 1) @ characters in the chunk header for combined diff format.
Unlike the traditional unified diff format, which shows two files A and B with a single column that
has - (minus -- appears in A but removed in B), + (plus -- missing in A but added to B), or " "
(space -- unchanged) prefix, this format compares two or more files file1, file2,... with one file X,
and shows how X differs from each of fileN. One column for each of fileN is prepended to the output
line to note how X's line is different from it.
A - character in the column N means that the line appears in fileN but it does not appear in the
result. A + character in the column N means that the line appears in the result, and fileN does not
have that line (in other words, the line was added, from the point of view of that parent).
In the above example output, the function signature was changed from both files (hence two - removals
from both file1 and file2, plus ++ to mean one line that was added does not appear in either file1
nor file2). Also eight other lines are the same from file1 but do not appear in file2 (hence prefixed
with +).
When shown by git diff-tree -c, it compares the parents of a merge commit with the merge result (i.e.
file1..fileN are the parents). When shown by git diff-files -c, it compares the two unresolved merge
parents with the working tree file (i.e. file1 is stage 2 aka "our version", file2 is stage 3 aka
"their version").
OTHER DIFF FORMATS
The --summary option describes newly added, deleted, renamed and copied files. The --stat option adds
diffstat(1) graph to the output. These options can be combined with other options, such as -p, and
are meant for human consumption.
When showing a change that involves a rename or a copy, --stat output formats the pathnames compactly
by combining common prefix and suffix of the pathnames. For example, a change that moves
arch/i386/Makefile to arch/x86/Makefile while modifying 4 lines will be shown like this:
arch/{i386 => x86}/Makefile | 4 +--The +-The
The --numstat option gives the diffstat(1) information but is designed for easier machine
consumption. An entry in --numstat output looks like this:
1 2 README
3 1 arch/{i386 => x86}/Makefile
That is, from left to right:
1. the number of added lines;
2. a tab;
3. the number of deleted lines;
4. a tab;
5. pathname (possibly with rename/copy information);
6. a newline.
When -z output option is in effect, the output is formatted this way:
1 2 README NUL
3 1 NUL arch/i386/Makefile NUL arch/x86/Makefile NUL
That is:
1. the number of added lines;
2. a tab;
3. the number of deleted lines;
4. a tab;
5. a NUL (only exists if renamed/copied);
6. pathname in preimage;
7. a NUL (only exists if renamed/copied);
8. pathname in postimage (only exists if renamed/copied);
9. a NUL.
The extra NUL before the preimage path in renamed case is to allow scripts that read the output to
tell if the current record being read is a single-path record or a rename/copy record without reading
ahead. After reading added and deleted lines, reading up to NUL would yield the pathname, but if that
is NUL, the record will show two paths.
OPERATING MODES
You can choose whether you want to trust the index file entirely (using the --cached flag) or ask the
diff logic to show any files that don't match the stat state as being "tentatively changed". Both of
these operations are very useful indeed.
CACHED MODE
If --cached is specified, it allows you to ask:
show me the differences between HEAD and the current index
contents (the ones I'd write using 'git write-tree')
For example, let's say that you have worked on your working directory, updated 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
Example: let's say I had renamed commit.c to git-commit.c, and I had done an update-index to make
that effective in 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
-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 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.
So doing a git diff-index --cached is basically very useful when you are asking yourself "what have I
already marked for being committed, and what's the difference to a previous tree".
NON-CACHED MODE
The "non-cached" mode takes a different approach, and is potentially the more useful of the two in
that what it does can't be emulated with 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
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 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 "object" associated with the
new state, and you get:
torvalds@ppc970:~/v2.6/linux> git diff-index --abbrev HEAD
:100644 100664 7476bb... 000000... kernel/sched.c
i.e., it shows that the tree has changed, and that kernel/sched.c has is not up-to-date and may
contain new stuff. The all-zero sha1 means that to 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 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 update-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 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 always have the
special all-zero sha1.
GIT
Part of the git(1) suite
Git 1.8.3 05/24/2013 GIT-DIFF-INDEX(1)
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