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Update help page for exclude-path feature.

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 Merged from hdf5 trunk (r19491).
 Related to "1890:  h5diff excluding object for file comparison via command line" checkins. (r19406)

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 jam, linew
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Jonathan Kim
2010-09-29 10:45:11 -05:00
parent 24e0792396
commit c88c65c130
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tools/h5diff/h5diff_common.c
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@@ -453,6 +453,30 @@ void usage(void)
printf(" comparing floating point values.\n");
printf(" By default, strict equality is used. Use -p or -d to\n");
printf(" set specific tolerance.\n");
printf(" --exclude-path \"path\" Exclude the specified path to an object when\n");
printf(" comparing files or groups. If a group is excluded,\n");
printf(" all member objects will also be excluded.\n");
printf(" The specified path is excluded wherever it occurs.\n");
printf(" This flexibility enables the same option to exclude\n");
printf(" either objects that exist only in one file or\n");
printf(" common objects that are known to differ.\n");
printf("\n");
printf(" When comparing files, \"path\" is the absolute path to\n");
printf(" the excluded object; when comparing groups, \"path\" is\n");
printf(" similar to the relative path from the group to the\n");
printf(" excluded object. This \"path\" can be taken from the\n");
printf(" first section of the output of the --verbose option.\n");
printf(" For example, if you are comparing the group /groupA\n");
printf(" in two files and you want to exclude\n");
printf(" /groupA/groupB/groupC in both files, the exclude\n");
printf(" option would read as follows:\n");
printf(" --exclude-path \"/groupB/groupC\"\n");
printf("\n");
printf(" If there are multiple paths to an object, only the\n");
printf(" specified path(s) will be excluded; the comparison\n");
printf(" will include any path not explicitly excluded.\n");
printf(" This option can be used repeatedly to exclude\n");
printf(" multiple paths.\n");
printf("\n");
printf(" Modes of output:\n");