Junio had some suggestions in the previous round. The inter-diff
follows.
Yeah, word-diff is a bit messy. Which brings me to: is it possible to
turn on word-diff only where heuristically appropriate? word-diff
applied on the rewrite of the first paragraph of gitdiffcore.txt is a
disaster, but okay everywhere else.
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index efb5dfe..a85288f 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -387,11 +387,11 @@ ifndef::git-format-patch[]
the specified string (i.e. addition/deletion) in a file.
Intended for the scripter's use.
+
It is[-especially-] useful when you're looking for an exact block of code (like a
struct), and want to know the history of that block since it first
came into being: use the feature iteratively to feed the interesting
block in the preimage back into `-S`, and keep going until you get the
very first version of the block.
-G<regex>::
Look for differences whose patch text contains added/removed
diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
index ef4c04a..c8b3e51 100644
--- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
+++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt
@@ -222,25 +222,27 @@ version prefixed with '+'.
diffcore-pickaxe: For Detecting Addition/Deletion of Specified String
---------------------------------------------------------------------
[-There are two kinds of pickaxe:-]{+This transformation limits+} the [-S kind (corresponding-]{+set of filepairs+} to [-'git log-]
[--S')-]{+those that change+}
{+specified strings between the preimage+} and the [-G kind (mnemonic: grep; corresponding-]{+postimage in a certain+}
{+way. -S<block of text> and -G<regular expression> options are used+} to
[-'git log -G').-]{+specify different ways these strings are sought.+}
"-S<block of text>" detects filepairs whose preimage and postimage
have different number of occurrences of the specified block of text.
By definition, it will not detect in-file moves. Also, when a
changeset moves a file wholesale without affecting the interesting
string, [-rename detection-]{+diffcore-rename+} kicks in as usual, and `-S` omits the filepair
(since the number of occurrences of that string didn't change in that
rename-detected filepair).[-The implementation essentially-]
[-runs a count, and is significantly cheaper than the G kind.-] When used with `--pickaxe-regex`, treat
the <block of text> as an extended POSIX regular expression to match,
instead of a literal string.
"-G<regular expression>" {+(mnemonic: grep)+} detects filepairs whose
textual diff has an added or a deleted line that matches the given
regular expression. This means that it [-can-]{+will+} detect in-file (or what
rename-detection considers the same file) [-moves.-]{+moves, which is noise.+} The
implementation runs diff twice and greps, and this can be quite
expensive.
When `-S` or `-G` are used without `--pickaxe-all`, only filepairs
that match their respective criterion are kept in the output. When
Ramkumar Ramachandra (2):
diffcore-pickaxe: make error messages more consistent
diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properly
Documentation/diff-options.txt | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt | 45 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
diffcore-pickaxe.c | 4 ++--
3 files changed, 59 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)
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1.8.3.114.gcd03571
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