diff options
| author | Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi> | 2008-09-01 00:50:28 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-09-02 06:48:45 (GMT) |
| commit | 62e00b0a9a72337a1ae2818ff3640e07c78db636 (patch) | |
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Improve documentation for --dirstat diff option
Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@iki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 11 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index cba90fd..746646b 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -59,12 +59,11 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] lines. --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 amount of changes (number of lines added or + removed) for each sub-directory. Directories with changes below + 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 is not + counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used. --summary:: Output a condensed summary of extended header information |