diff: document diff-filter exclusion
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>
Junio C Hamano committed
Jul 14, 2016 at 12:17 UTC
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Documentation/diff-options.txt
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@@ -399,6 +399,9 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
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paths are selected if there is any file that matches
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other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
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that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
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+Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude. E.g.
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+`--diff-filter=ad` excludes added and deleted paths.
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-S<string>::
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Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of