Documentation: fix description for enabling hooks

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

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 17593864041189b7d073b05627cfc5cfee1301da..c62b45cdbade990878b8e8e9371d41d4e3c43bfe 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -59,12 +59,14 @@ 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.
+
+--dirstat-by-file[=limit]::
+       Same as --dirstat, but counts changed files instead of lines.
 
 --summary::
        Output a condensed summary of extended header information
@@ -135,7 +137,8 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 --diff-filter=[ACDMRTUXB*]::
        Select only files that are Added (`A`), Copied (`C`),
        Deleted (`D`), Modified (`M`), Renamed (`R`), have their
-       type (mode) changed (`T`), are Unmerged (`U`), are
+       type (i.e. regular file, symlink, submodule, ...) changed (`T`),
+       are Unmerged (`U`), are
        Unknown (`X`), or have had their pairing Broken (`B`).
        Any combination of the filter characters may be used.
        When `*` (All-or-none) is added to the combination, all