John Tapsell <johnflux@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 2009/3/3 Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx>: >> On Tue, Mar 03, 2009 at 08:42:12AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >>> In retrospect, because --pickaxe was designed primarily for Porcelain use, >>> it was a mistake for it to have taken a short-and-sweet -S synonym. >> >> Hmm. I actually like the pickaxe behavior and find it useful for >> searching. IOW, I consider it a porcelain feature, just perhaps not the >> one that some people are expecting. >> >>> > -S<string>:: >>> > - Look for differences that contain the change in <string>. >>> > + Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of >>> > + <string>. Note that this is different than the string simply >>> > + appearing in diff output; see the 'pickaxe' entry in >>> > + linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details. >>> >>> Look for differences that change the number of occurrences of <string>? >> >> Yes, that is technically correct. I was trying to find a wording that >> was a little less "this is literally what it does" and more "this is >> what you might find it useful for". > > Is there any way to have an option to also match any line containing > the string? Patches welcome. I've already outlined what you need to do. I think it can be called -G (short for --grep-diff), if --search cannot be used because "-s" is unavailable. -- 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
