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ANAlbert Netymk <albertnetymk@gmail.com>
Date
May 18, 2013, 16:26 UTC
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Hello,

The man page of git-diff-index: http://git-scm.com/docs/git-diff-index states that `git-diff-index - Compares content and mode of blobs between the index and repository`.

However, in fact this command compares between files on disk and repository by default. It's explained clearly in here: http://git-scm.com/docs/gitdiffcore

Maybe the man page could be updated to reflect this in NAME section: `git-diff-index - Compares content and mode of blobs between files on disk and repository or between the index and repository`

In DESCRIPTION section: `Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via a tree object with the content of the files on disk by default, and could be compared with index only using cached option. ...`

-- Best Regards

Yours faithfully Albert Netymk

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