Merge branch 'pb/blame-funcname-range-userdiff'

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / diff-options.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 2e7a93894c8893f0ded8978391b3098fb1c9b0cf..746b144c76ba15f48b58d77ad88b88379f83529e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -704,7 +704,10 @@ endif::git-format-patch[]
 
 -W::
 --function-context::
-       Show whole surrounding functions of changes.
+       Show whole function as context lines for each change.
+       The function names are determined in the same way as
+       `git diff` works out patch hunk headers (see 'Defining a
+       custom hunk-header' in linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
 
 ifndef::git-format-patch[]
 ifndef::git-log[]