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| author |  Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-07-14 12:17:47 -0700 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2016-07-14 12:17:47 -0700 |
| commit | 16726cfa0c3ad5d0d261bd7068014e659cb989da (patch) | |
| tree | 505e7d4b3f6b0a67b8537e0e755dcb6fc60ede2f /Documentation | |
| parent | Git 2.4.11 (diff) | |
| download | tgif-16726cfa0c3ad5d0d261bd7068014e659cb989da.tar.xz | |
diff: document diff-filter exclusion
In v1.8.5 days, 7f2ea5f0 (diff: allow lowercase letter to specify
what change class to exclude, 2013-07-17) taught the "--diff-filter"
mechanism to take lowercase letters as exclusion, but we forgot to
document it.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 3ad6404dbc..073c7e58f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -399,6 +399,9 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] 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. ++ +Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude. E.g. +`--diff-filter=ad` excludes added and deleted paths. -S<string>:: Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of |