From 24757702395ed4c828af585f2d8ba0efda5cf697 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:06:18 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation: update implicit "--no-index" behavior in "git diff" Originally "--no-index" mode triggered for untracked files within the tracked tree, but with v1.5.6-rc1~41 (Merge branch 'jc/diff-no-no-index, 2008-05-26) the command was fixed to only implicitly trigger when paths outside the tracked tree are mentioned. Reported-by: Yann Dirson <dirson@bertin.fr> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> --- Documentation/git-diff.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-diff.txt index fe34d4edb48..dd1fb32786f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-diff.txt @@ -23,9 +23,9 @@ tree and the index file, or the index file and the working tree. further add to the index but you still haven't. You can stage these changes by using linkgit:git-add[1]. + -If exactly two paths are given, and at least one is untracked, -compare the two files / directories. This behavior can be -forced by --no-index. +If exactly two paths are given and at least one points outside +the current repository, 'git diff' will compare the two files / +directories. This behavior can be forced by --no-index. 'git diff' [--options] --cached [<commit>] [--] [<path>...]::