Sometimes there's a couple of changed files together with some new, deleted and/or renamed files. When doing git diff or git-log I'd like to omit them, so I can better spot the modifications.
Actually, listing the names of the new and deleted files without their content would be best. For "old" renamed to "new" I'd like to optionally get the difference between "old" and "new".
Also, these upper-case letters can be downcased to exclude.
E.g.--diff-filter=adexcludes added and deleted paths.
In your case, git diff --diff-filter=ad would work, but make sure to not use lower and upper letters in the same filter, unless you have Git 2.36 (Q2 2022).
"git diff --diff-filter=aR"(man) is now parsed correctly.
See commit 75408ca, commit 4d4d4ea, commit d843e31 (28 Jan 2022) by Johannes Schindelin (dscho).
(Merged by Junio C Hamano -- gitster -- in commit 9a16099, 16 Feb 2022)
diff-filter: be more careful when looking for negative bitsSigned-off-by: Johannes Schindelin
The
--diff-filter=<bits>option allows to filter the diff by certain criteria, for exampleRto only show renamed files.
It also supports negating a filter via a down-cased letter, i.e.
rto show everything but renamed files.However, the code is a bit overzealous when trying to figure out whether
git diff(man) should start with all diff-filters turned on because the user provided a lower-case letter: if the--diff-filterargument starts with an upper-case letter, we must not start with all bits turned on.Even worse, it is possible to specify the diff filters in multiple, separate options, e.g.
--diff-filter=AM [...] --diff-filter=m.Let's accumulate the include/exclude filters independently, and only special-case the "only exclude filters were specified" case after parsing the options altogether.
