git/Documentation/git-range-diff.txt, branch v2.43.2

Merge branch 'sn/typo-grammo-phraso-fixes'

2023-10-29T22:09:55Z

Many typos, ungrammatical sentences and wrong phrasing have been fixed. * sn/typo-grammo-phraso-fixes: t/README: fix multi-prerequisite example doc/gitk: s/sticked/stuck/ git-jump: admit to passing merge mode args to ls-files doc/diff-options: improve wording of the log.diffMerges mention doc: fix some typos, grammar and wording issues

documentation: wording improvements

2023-10-09T19:04:21Z

Diff best viewed with --color-diff. Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

doc: fix some typos, grammar and wording issues

2023-10-05T19:55:38Z

Signed-off-by: Štěpán Němec Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

range-diff: optionally accept pathspecs

2022-08-26T16:49:26Z

The `git range-diff` command can be quite expensive, which is not a surprise given that the underlying algorithm to match up pairs of commits between the provided two commit ranges has a cubic runtime. Therefore it makes sense to restrict the commit ranges as much as possible, to reduce the amount of input to that O(N^3) algorithm. In chatty repositories with wide trees, this is not necessarily possible merely by choosing commit ranges wisely. Let's give users another option to restrict the commit ranges: by providing a pathspec. That helps in repositories with wide trees because it is likely that the user has a good idea which subset of the tree they are actually interested in. Example: git range-diff upstream/main upstream/seen HEAD -- range-diff.c This shows commits that are either in the local branch or in `seen`, but not in `main`, skipping all commits that do not touch `range-diff.c`. Note: Since we piggy-back the pathspecs onto the `other_arg` mechanism that was introduced to be able to pass through the `--notes` option to the revision machinery, we must now ensure that the `other_arg` array is appended at the end (the revision range must come before the pathspecs, if any). Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'js/range-diff-one-side-only'

2021-02-18T01:21:41Z

The "git range-diff" command learned "--(left|right)-only" option to show only one side of the compared range. * js/range-diff-one-side-only: range-diff: offer --left-only/--right-only options range-diff: move the diffopt initialization down one layer range-diff: combine all options in a single data structure range-diff: simplify code spawning `git log` range-diff: libify the read_patches() function again range-diff: avoid leaking memory in two error code paths

range-diff(docs): explain how to specify commit ranges

2021-02-07T05:24:55Z

There are three forms, depending whether the user specifies one, two or three non-option arguments. We've never actually explained how this works in the manual, so let's explain it. Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

range-diff: offer --left-only/--right-only options

2021-02-07T05:14:31Z

When comparing commit ranges, one is frequently interested only in one side, such as asking the question "Has this patch that I submitted to the Git mailing list been applied?": one would only care about the part of the output that corresponds to the commits in a local branch. To make that possible, imitate the `git rev-list` options `--left-only` and `--right-only`. This addresses https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/issues/206 Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Merge branch 'dl/range-diff-with-notes'

2019-12-05T20:52:44Z

"git range-diff" learned to take the "--notes=" and the "--no-notes" options to control the commit notes included in the log message that gets compared. * dl/range-diff-with-notes: format-patch: pass notes configuration to range-diff range-diff: pass through --notes to `git log` range-diff: output `## Notes ##` header t3206: range-diff compares logs with commit notes t3206: s/expected/expect/ t3206: disable parameter substitution in heredoc t3206: remove spaces after redirect operators pretty-options.txt: --notes accepts a ref instead of treeish rev-list-options.txt: remove reference to --show-notes argv-array: add space after `while`

range-diff: pass through --notes to `git log`

2019-11-21T00:29:52Z

When a commit being range-diff'd has a note attached to it, the note will be compared as well. However, if a user has multiple notes refs or if they want to suppress notes from being printed, there is currently no way to do this. Pass through `--[no-]notes[=]` to the `git log` call so that this option is customizable. Signed-off-by: Denton Liu Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano

Documentation: fix a bunch of typos, both old and new

2019-11-07T04:42:00Z

Reported-by: Jens Schleusener Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano