init/clone: remove short option -L and document --separate-git-dir

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

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index c93124be79809e36d9a29fd69ce77cd7f22413e1..c32105f1ed35f53a0922f32ad3fb271592d79d28 100644 (file)
--- 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
+the amount of pure code movements within a file.  In other words,
+rearranging lines in a file is not counted as much as other changes.
 
 --dirstat-by-file[=<limit>]::
        Same as `--dirstat`, but counts changed files instead of lines.
@@ -239,7 +243,7 @@ ifdef::git-log[]
        For following files across renames while traversing history, see
        `--follow`.
 endif::git-log[]
-       If `n` is specified, it is a is a threshold on the similarity
+       If `n` is specified, it is a threshold on the similarity
        index (i.e. amount of addition/deletions compared to the
        file's size). For example, `-M90%` means git should consider a
        delete/add pair to be a rename if more than 90% of the file