[PATCH] diff: document diff-filter exclusion

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[PATCH] diff: document diff-filter exclusion

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-14 19:20:57

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
-- 
2.9.1-545-g8c0a069

Re: [PATCH] diff: document diff-filter exclusion

From: Stefan Beller <hidden>
Date: 2016-07-14 19:27:16

On Thu, Jul 14, 2016 at 12:20 PM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:
quoted hunk
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.
This looks good for the neighboring thread. :)
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/299512
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