diff options
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-grep.txt | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/line-range-format.txt | 4 |
3 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 573fb9bb71..72b558ce21 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -695,7 +695,10 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] -W:: --function-context:: - Show whole surrounding functions of changes. + Show whole function as context lines for each change. + The function names are determined in the same way as + `git diff` works out patch hunk headers (see 'Defining a + custom hunk-header' in linkgit:gitattributes[5]). ifndef::git-format-patch[] ifndef::git-log[] diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 6077ff01a4..4e0ba8234a 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ providing this option will cause it to die. --show-function:: Show the preceding line that contains the function name of the match, unless the matching line is a function name itself. - The name is determined in the same way as 'git diff' works out + The name is determined in the same way as `git diff` works out patch hunk headers (see 'Defining a custom hunk-header' in linkgit:gitattributes[5]). @@ -266,7 +266,9 @@ providing this option will cause it to die. Show the surrounding text from the previous line containing a function name up to the one before the next function name, effectively showing the whole function in which the match was - found. + found. The function names are determined in the same way as + `git diff` works out patch hunk headers (see 'Defining a + custom hunk-header' in linkgit:gitattributes[5]). --threads <num>:: Number of grep worker threads to use. diff --git a/Documentation/line-range-format.txt b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt index 43759eef89..9b51e9fb66 100644 --- a/Documentation/line-range-format.txt +++ b/Documentation/line-range-format.txt @@ -27,4 +27,6 @@ regular expression that denotes the range from the first funcname line that matches '<funcname>', up to the next funcname line. `:<funcname>` searches from the end of the previous `-L` range, if any, otherwise from the start of file. `^:<funcname>` searches from the start of -file. +file. The function names are determined in the same way as `git diff` +works out patch hunk headers (see 'Defining a custom hunk-header' +in linkgit:gitattributes[5]). |