Signed-off-by: Heikki Orsila <heikki.orsila@xxxxxx> --- My earlier version of the patch already gave an example of use. This version changes the word "damage" to "impact" (Jakub Narebski's suggestion). Documentation/diff-options.txt | 11 +++++------ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 1759386..150debb 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -59,12 +59,11 @@ 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 impact (number of lines added or + removed) for each sub-directory. Directories with impact below + a cut-off percent (3% by default) are not shown. The cut-off percent + can be set with "--dirstat=limit". Child directory impact is not + counted for the parent directory, unless "--cumulative" is used. --summary:: Output a condensed summary of extended header information -- 1.6.0.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
