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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 9d1586b956..c330c01ff0 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -469,6 +469,12 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[] + Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude. E.g. `--diff-filter=ad` excludes added and deleted paths. ++ +Note that not all diffs can feature all types. For instance, diffs +from the index to the working tree can never have Added entries +(because the set of paths included in the diff is limited by what is in +the index). Similarly, copied and renamed entries cannot appear if +detection for those types is disabled. -S<string>:: Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of @@ -502,6 +508,15 @@ occurrences of that string did not change). See the 'pickaxe' entry in linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more information. +--find-object=<object-id>:: + Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of + the specified object. Similar to `-S`, just the argument is different + in that it doesn't search for a specific string but for a specific + object id. ++ +The object can be a blob or a submodule commit. It implies the `-t` option in +`git-log` to also find trees. + --pickaxe-all:: When `-S` or `-G` finds a change, show all the changes in that changeset, not just the files that contain the change @@ -510,6 +525,7 @@ information. --pickaxe-regex:: Treat the <string> given to `-S` as an extended POSIX regular expression to match. + endif::git-format-patch[] -O<orderfile>:: |