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diff --git a/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt b/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt index fe350d7..fbdbe0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [--no-dual-color] [--creation-factor=<factor>] [--left-only | --right-only] ( <range1> <range2> | <rev1>...<rev2> | <base> <rev1> <rev2> ) + [[--] <path>...] DESCRIPTION ----------- @@ -19,6 +20,9 @@ DESCRIPTION This command shows the differences between two versions of a patch series, or more generally, two commit ranges (ignoring merge commits). +In the presence of `<path>` arguments, these commit ranges are limited +accordingly. + To that end, it first finds pairs of commits from both commit ranges that correspond with each other. Two commits are said to correspond when the diff between their patches (i.e. the author information, the commit @@ -66,7 +70,7 @@ to revert to color all lines according to the outer diff markers Defaults to 60. Try a larger value if `git range-diff` erroneously considers a large change a total rewrite (deletion of one commit and addition of another), and a smaller one in the reverse case. - See the ``Algorithm`` section below for an explanation why this is + See the ``Algorithm`` section below for an explanation of why this is needed. --left-only:: @@ -162,7 +166,7 @@ A typical output of `git range-diff` would look like this: In this example, there are 3 old and 3 new commits, where the developer removed the 3rd, added a new one before the first two, and modified the -commit message of the 2nd commit as well its diff. +commit message of the 2nd commit as well as its diff. When the output goes to a terminal, it is color-coded by default, just like regular `git diff`'s output. In addition, the first line (adding a |