[PATCH] Documentation: diff-filter=T only tests for symlink changes

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With the previous text, one could get the understanding that
diff-filter=T also tested for changes in the executable bit.

Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> There are other "commit pickers" such as -S<strting> and
> --diff-filter that do not absolutely have to exist (iow, they could
> also be scripted), but what they pick earned easy shortcuts because
> the need is very common. Once you can demonstrate that the need to
> pick executable-bit changes is also very common, _and_ if you can
> come up with a clean solution, we might add a commit picker that
> looks for changes in executable-ness in the future. I dunno.

You are right that this should be a rare need.

I didn't mean to push for this feature. I just offered to implement
it, as I needed it myself and din't see other ways. A script will work
fine for me, I should have thought of that.

The documentation patch that I promised is here.


Thanks,
Anders.


 Documentation/diff-options.txt |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 7788d4f..7604a13 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ 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 (symlink/regular file) 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
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1.6.0.2.514.g23abd3
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