[PATCH] diff: document diff-filter exclusion
From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-14 19:20:57
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
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 <redacted> --- Documentation/diff-options.txt | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 3ad6404..073c7e5 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<string>:: Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of
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