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." -- Heikki Orsila heikki.orsila@xxxxxx http://www.iki.fi/shd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
