Re: --diff-filter=T does not list x changes

Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] writes:

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

quoted

  Select only files [...] have their type (mode) changed (T) [...]

which to me indicates that your test case should work. 

That documentation is quite loosely written. Typechange diff is what
T has always meant, and it never was about the executable bit. The
word "mode" in that sentence only means the upper bits
S_IFREG/S_IFLNK (iow, masked by S_IFMT).

I hope you agree that this reading is not obvious from the
documentation, so I will send a patch later fixing up the prose (if
nobody beats me to it).

How about adding a diff-filter=X for the executable bit? I could
probably look at that during the weekend.


Anders.