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[PATCH] Update git-diff-cache documentation.

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:41:58
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

The recent diff updates gave diff-cache the same ability to
filter paths, which was not properly documented.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
---

Documentation/git-diff-cache.txt |   10 ++++++----
diff-cache.c                     |    2 +-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-diff-cache.txt b/Documentation/git-diff-cache.txt
--- a/Documentation/git-diff-cache.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-diff-cache.txt
@@ -9,13 +9,15 @@ git-diff-cache - Compares content and mo
 
 SYNOPSIS
 --------
-'git-diff-cache' [-p] [-r] [-z] [-m] [-M] [-R] [-C] [-S<string>] [--cached] <tree-ish>
+'git-diff-cache' [-p] [-r] [-z] [-m] [-M] [-R] [-C] [-S<string>] [--cached] <tree-ish> [<path>...]
 
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
-Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via a tree object
-with the content of the current cache and, optionally ignoring the
-stat state of the file on disk.
+Compares the content and mode of the blobs found via a tree
+object with the content of the current cache and, optionally
+ignoring the stat state of the file on disk.  When paths are
+specified, compares only those named paths.  Otherwise all
+entries in the cache are compared.
 
 OPTIONS
 -------
diff --git a/diff-cache.c b/diff-cache.c
--- a/diff-cache.c
+++ b/diff-cache.c
@@ -154,7 +154,7 @@ static void mark_merge_entries(void)
 }
 
 static char *diff_cache_usage =
-"git-diff-cache [-p] [-r] [-z] [-m] [-M] [-C] [-R] [-S<string>] [--cached] <tree-ish>";
+"git-diff-cache [-p] [-r] [-z] [-m] [-M] [-C] [-R] [-S<string>] [--cached] <tree-ish> [<path>...]";
 
 int main(int argc, const char **argv)
 {
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