On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 6:56 PM Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2023 at 06:08:18PM -0400, Alexei Podtelezhnikov wrote: > > I find this sections of the docs confusing: > > > > git diff -G (https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/git/git.git/tree/Documentation/diff-options.txt#n656) > > > > I do not follow why the example talks about `git log -G` and commits. > > I see that thai file is included in git-log .txt but I do not > > understand how to use git diff -G. > > I agree that it can be somewhat confusing :-). [skip to the practical example] > given to `-G`, like so: > > $ git -C repo diff --stat HEAD^ > a | 1 + > b | 1 + > 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+) > $ git -C repo diff --stat HEAD^ -G a > a | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) > $ git -C repo diff --stat HEAD^ -G b > b | 1 + > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Do you mean that-G is only useful to filter files and not the content of changes? That I can do without -G. Canyou give a better example?
