Merge branch 'maint-1.5.4' into maint

[git.git] / Documentation / diff-options.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
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--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -58,6 +58,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
        number of modified files, as well as number of added and deleted
        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.
+
 --summary::
        Output a condensed summary of extended header information
        such as creations, renames and mode changes.
@@ -171,6 +179,14 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
        Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or
        on-disk file to tree contents.
 
+--relative[=<path>]::
+       When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be
+       told to exclude changes outside the directory and show
+       pathnames relative to it with this option.  When you are
+       not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you
+       can name which subdirectory to make the output relative
+       to by giving a <path> as an argument.
+
 --text::
        Treat all files as text.