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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-02-13 11:34:39 +0300 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2008-02-14 01:59:34 +0300 |
| commit | c0cb4a067972700f0682fbab13768bcc7dc7a3c3 (patch) | |
| tree | cd372148a53a828f4beeff6f395dc3c87fab3698 /Documentation/diff-options.txt | |
| parent | cd676a513672eeb9663c6d4de276a1c860a4b879 (diff) | |
diff --relative: help working in a bare repository
This allows the --relative option to say which subdirectory to
pretend to be in, so that in a bare repository, you can say:
$ git log --relative=drivers/ v2.6.20..v2.6.22 -- drivers/scsi/
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/diff-options.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 286c30c01a..8dc5b001c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -170,10 +170,13 @@ endif::git-format-patch[] Swap two inputs; that is, show differences from index or on-disk file to tree contents. ---relative:: +--relative[=<path>]:: When run from a subdirectory of the project, it can be told to exclude changes outside the directory and show - pathnames relative to it with this option. + pathnames relative to it with this option. When you are + not in a subdirectory (e.g. in a bare repository), you + can name which subdirectory to make the output relative + to by giving a <path> as an argument. --text:: Treat all files as text. |