From 16726cfa0c3ad5d0d261bd7068014e659cb989da Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Junio C Hamano Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2016 12:17:47 -0700 Subject: 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 --- Documentation/diff-options.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') 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:: Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of -- cgit v1.2.3