Re: git-diff-index man page

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 20, 2013, 22:48 UTC
Message-ID: <7vy5b9s1xo.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20130520062743.GA2919@elie.Belkin>

Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> writes:

> Thanks and hope that helps,
> Jonathan

Thanks, the result reads much better, I think.

Albert?

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> diff --git i/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt w/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
> index 58308e15..a86cf62e 100644
> --- i/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
> +++ w/Documentation/git-diff-index.txt
> @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ git-diff-index(1)
>  
>  NAME
>  ----
> -git-diff-index - Compare a tree and the working tree or the index
> +git-diff-index - Compare a tree to the working tree or index
>  
>  
>  SYNOPSIS
> @@ -13,12 +13,11 @@ SYNOPSIS
>  
>  DESCRIPTION
>  -----------
> -
> -Compare the content and mode of the blobs found in a tree object
> -with the corresponding tracked file in the working tree, or with the
> -corresponding paths in the index.  When paths are specified,
> -compares only those named paths.  Otherwise all entries in the index
> -are compared.
> +Compares the content and mode of the blobs found in a tree object
> +with the corresponding tracked files in the working tree, or with the
> +corresponding paths in the index.  When <path> arguments are present,
> +compares only paths matching those patterns.  Otherwise all tracked
> +files are compared.
>  
>  OPTIONS
>  -------