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[PATCH 4/4] docs/git-blame: explain more clearly the example pickaxe use

From
AIAlbert L. Lash, IV <albert.lash@gmail.com>
Date
Feb 8, 2014, 20:41 UTC
Message-ID
<1391892097-16169-4-git-send-email-alash3@bloomberg.net>
In-Reply-To
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We state that the following paragraph mentions the pickaxe interface, but the term pickaxe is not then used. This change clarifies that the example command uses the pickaxe interface and what it is searching for.

Signed-off-by: Albert L. Lash, IV <alash3@bloomberg.net>
---
 Documentation/git-blame.txt | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
index 8e70a61..ddb88d0 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
@@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ Apart from supporting file annotation, Git also supports searching the
 development history for when a code snippet occurred in a change. This makes it
 possible to track when a code snippet was added to a file, moved or copied
 between files, and eventually deleted or replaced. It works by searching for
-a text string in the diff. A small example:
+a text string in the diff. A small example of the pickaxe interface 
+that searches for `blame_usage`:
 
 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 $ git log --pretty=oneline -S'blame_usage'
-- 
1.8.3.2
Previous: Junio C HamanoNext: Junio C Hamano
Message 5 of 7 in “docs/merge-strategies: remove hyphen from mis-merges”
  1. 1/4 docs/merge-strategies: remove hyphen from mis-mergesAlbert L. Lash, IV, Feb 8, 2014
  2. 2/4 docs/git-remote: capitalize first word of initial blurbAlbert L. Lash, IV, Feb 8, 2014
  3. 3/4 docs/git-clone: clarify use of --no-hardlinks optionAlbert L. Lash, IV, Feb 8, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2014
  5. 4/4 docs/git-blame: explain more clearly the example pickaxe useAlbert L. Lash, IV, Feb 8, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2014
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2014

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