From 62e00b0a9a72337a1ae2818ff3640e07c78db636 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Heikki Orsila Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 03:50:28 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] Improve documentation for --dirstat diff option Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/diff-options.txt | 11 +++++------ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index cba90fd27c..746646bb3d 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