Merge pull request #3402 from ethomson/faster_diff

Provide path matching in the iterators (for faster diffs)

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/include/git2/diff.h b/include/git2/diff.h
index 0abbc7f06..a0f6db350 100644
--- a/include/git2/diff.h
+++ b/include/git2/diff.h
@@ -129,8 +129,12 @@ typedef enum {
 	 */
 	GIT_DIFF_INCLUDE_CASECHANGE = (1u << 11),
 
-	/** If the pathspec is set in the diff options, this flags means to
-	 *  apply it as an exact match instead of as an fnmatch pattern.
+	/** If the pathspec is set in the diff options, this flags indicates
+	 *  that the paths will be treated as literal paths instead of
+	 *  fnmatch patterns.  Each path in the list must either be a full
+	 *  path to a file or a directory.  (A trailing slash indicates that
+	 *  the path will _only_ match a directory).  If a directory is
+	 *  specified, all children will be included.
 	 */
 	GIT_DIFF_DISABLE_PATHSPEC_MATCH = (1u << 12),