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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- <g9gdev$2un$1@ger.gmane.org>
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- <20080901005028.GA31502@zakalwe.fi>
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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