J. Bruce Fields wrote: > +With the right arguments, git diff can also show us the difference > +between the working directory and the last commit, or between the > +index and the last commit: > + > +------------------------------------------------ > +$ git diff HEAD [...] > +$ git diff --cached Junio C Hamano wrote: > Also, ":<path>" to mean the > entry in the index is often equivalent to "git diff --cached". > > IOW, these are obscure special purpose notation, and I do not > think tutorial is a good place to cover them. Hmm, wouldn't it be nice to have here :<path> mentioned as alternative/extension to --cached, and <ref>:<path> including HEAD:<path> as an extension of HEAD, and <path> as an extension to not having arguments? By extension I mean adding path limiting and some more advanced selection of things to diff. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html