Merge branch 'ab/hooks'

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index d9ae681d8ff676a80e757adb76b02787a5c091c7..705a8739420067d433817c0f855c5cb4ee99559b 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -419,6 +419,9 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
        paths are selected if there is any file that matches
        other criteria in the comparison; if there is no file
        that matches other criteria, nothing is selected.
++
+Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude.  E.g.
+`--diff-filter=ad` excludes added and deleted paths.
 
 -S<string>::
        Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of