Merge branch 'am/status'

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

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 13234fa280b279bfccad0a9aec6989727957567a..7788d4fa4a1209cbed564a20f882f0946ba400cf 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
@@ -107,9 +109,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
        --exit-code.
 
 --full-index::
-       Instead of the first handful characters, show full
-       object name of pre- and post-image blob on the "index"
-       line when generating a patch format output.
+       Instead of the first handful of characters, show the full
+       pre- and post-image blob object names on the "index"
+       line when generating patch format output.
 
 --binary::
        In addition to --full-index, output "binary diff" that
@@ -228,6 +230,9 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 --no-ext-diff::
        Disallow external diff drivers.
 
+--ignore-submodules::
+       Ignore changes to submodules in the diff generation.
+
 --src-prefix=<prefix>::
        Show the given source prefix instead of "a/".
 
@@ -238,4 +243,4 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
        Do not show any source or destination prefix.
 
 For more detailed explanation on these common options, see also
-link:diffcore.html[diffcore documentation].
+linkgit:gitdiffcore[7].