From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 00:25:17 GMT
Subject: Re: Something wrong with pickaxe?
Message-ID: <7v3bjlt66q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601181541150.3240@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> 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 ;-).