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| author | Johan Herland <johan@herland.net> | 2011-04-10 22:48:50 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2011-04-11 17:11:17 (GMT) |
| commit | 204f01a2f734fddab95b09123b04b1305620e7b6 (patch) | |
| tree | 2f2f3a4676b2ae2ed270f8d23f153cafb049e789 /Documentation/diff-options.txt | |
| parent | 5fb41b883a5d0f9cbc4c6c693e6d84a8a5cee17e (diff) | |
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--dirstat: Describe non-obvious differences relative to --stat or regular diff
Also add a testcase documenting the current behavior.
Improved-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Johan Herland <johan@herland.net>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index c93124b..23772d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -72,6 +72,10 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent can be set with `--dirstat=<limit>`. Changes in a child directory are not counted for the parent directory, unless `--cumulative` is used. ++ +Note that the `--dirstat` option computes the changes while ignoring +pure code movements within a file. In other words, rearranging lines +in a file is not counted as a change. --dirstat-by-file[=<limit>]:: Same as `--dirstat`, but counts changed files instead of lines. |