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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Correct documentation wording for diff options -S and --pickaxe-all
From: Heikki Orsila <shdl () zakalwe ! fi>
Date: 2008-08-31 23:59:57
Message-ID: 20080831235957.GB16289 () zakalwe ! fi
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On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 04:21:43PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Thanks, but if we are doing this, we should reword it to something less
> misleading. The pickaxe search does not look for changes that contains
> string in the sense people might expect (e.g. "diff -u0 | grep string").
>
> The machinery looks at the old and new copy, and considers it a match if
> they have different numbers of "string" in them.
>
> So perhaps something like this
>
> -S<string>::
> Look for differences that changes the number of <string> in the
> file.
>
> --pickaxe-all::
> When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that changeset,
> not just the files for which the number of <string> in them
> changes.
>
> but I am bad at writing, so I'll ask others to come up with a better
> wording.
Perhaps like this:
-S:
"Look for differences that change the number of <string> matches in a file.
In other words, moving the <string> inside a file does not imply a
match, but adding or removing <string> will."
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Heikki Orsila
heikki.orsila@iki.fi
http://www.iki.fi/shd
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