Add config variable for specifying default --dirstat behavior

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 0962035faac1d8189bea4abf50ec6bd4bba2b058..dc023523ee9c1710dcd6f465d7df2d1342321cf7 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -70,6 +70,8 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
        Output the distribution of relative amount of changes for each
        sub-directory. The behavior of `--dirstat` can be customized by
        passing it a comma separated list of parameters.
+       The defaults are controlled by the `diff.dirstat` configuration
+       variable (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
        The following parameters are available:
 +
 --