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Re: [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dirstat diff option

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Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date
Sep 1, 2008, 09:42 UTC
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Heikki Orsila wrote:
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>  --dirstat[=limit]::
> -       Output only the sub-directories that are impacted by a diff,
> -       and to what degree they are impacted.  You can override the
> -       default cut-off in percent (3) by "--dirstat=limit".  If you
> -       want to enable "cumulative" directory statistics, you can use
> -       the "--cumulative" flag, which adds up percentages recursively
> -       even when they have been already reported for a sub-directory.
> +       Output the distribution of relative damage (number of lines added or
> +       removed) for each sub-directory. Directories with damage below
> +       a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent
> +       can be set with "--dirstat=limit". Damage for a child directory is not
> +       counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used.

I rather prefer "impact" to "damage". And it should probably be "child directory _shown_".

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Jakub Narebski
Warsaw, Poland
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  2. Jakub NarebskiSep 1, 2008
  3. Junio C HamanoSep 1, 2008
  4. Heikki OrsilaSep 1, 2008

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