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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-08-08 14:21:44 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2016-08-08 14:21:44 -0700
commit2f8c654edb0c8805749c60228ad9abb5984fba63 (patch)
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parentMerge branch 'nd/test-helpers' into maint (diff)
parentdiff: document diff-filter exclusion (diff)
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Merge branch 'jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude' into maint
Belated doc update for a feature added in v1.8.5. * jc/doc-diff-filter-exclude: diff: document diff-filter exclusion
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@@ -419,6 +419,9 @@ 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.
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+Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude. E.g.
+`--diff-filter=ad` excludes added and deleted paths.
-S<string>::
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