log -G: ignore binary files

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / gitdiffcore.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
index c0a60f315811c788f3431b5757c38ffcea487386..c970d9fe438a091dc19900a4de1973ac4bcc4434 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
@@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ textual diff has an added or a deleted line that matches the given
 regular expression.  This means that it will detect in-file (or what
 rename-detection considers the same file) moves, which is noise.  The
 implementation runs diff twice and greps, and this can be quite
-expensive.
+expensive.  To speed things up binary files without textconv filters
+will be ignored.
 
 When `-S` or `-G` are used without `--pickaxe-all`, only filepairs
 that match their respective criterion are kept in the output.  When