[PATCH] diff: document diff-filter exclusion
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
- Date
- Jul 14, 2016, 19:20 UTC
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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 <gitster@pobox.com> --- 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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