[BUG] The description of pickaxe in git-blame(1) is wrong
- From
Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
- Date
- Dec 14, 2008, 21:33 UTC
- Message-ID
- <200812142233.49669.jnareb@gmail.com>
I think that the description of how 'pickaxe' feature works in Documentation/git-blame.txt is wrong. It says:
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:
The part "It works by searching for a text string in the diff" is, if I remember correctly, wrong. Actually it (I think) compares how many matches are in pre-image and in post-image, and shows these commits where those number differ.
This for example means that pickaxe would not pick commit which moved a fragment from one place to other without change, I think.
-- Jakub Narebski Poland