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Re: Something wrong with pickaxe?

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Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date
Jan 19, 2006, 00:25 UTC
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
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> So when you use pickaxe, you really want to match the whole line you're 
> looking for - otherwise you'll only see when people add or remove a 
> particular string, not when they change things around it. Even then, if 
> that particular line gets _moved_ (but otherwise is unchanged) pickaxe 
> won't pick it up.
True.  I always feed at least couple of lines to it.
> ... Junio would be open to 
> more friendly pickaxe semantics if the suggested semantics change was 
> accompanied by an actual diff to implement them.

True again. It is hard to be "more friendly" without actually generating a diff ;-).

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Message 3 of 9 in “Something wrong with pickaxe?”
  1. Johannes SchindelinJan 18, 2006
  2. Linus TorvaldsJan 18, 2006
  3. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  4. Andreas EricssonJan 19, 2006
  5. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  6. Andreas EricssonJan 19, 2006
  7. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006
  8. Linus TorvaldsJan 19, 2006
  9. Junio C HamanoJan 19, 2006

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