Re: [PATCH] diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properly

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: May 14, 2013, 18:57 UTC
Message-ID: <7v4ne5jsno.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <CABURp0r808KeSRwhgPw98vUC+JSErvSYHFyAvn-=8JhQzn8e1Q@mail.gmail.com>

Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> writes:

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>     Normally the pickaxe options limit the diff output to those files which
>     contained the changes being searched; that is, those files which
>     had modifications including the search string.  With the --pickaxe-all
>     option, the diff of the entire commit will be shown including files
>     which did not have modifications including the search string.  This
>     is designed to make it easier to review the changes in the context
>     of the whole commit.

I find this very readable, even though "diff output" might be somewhat misleading (it is not "output for the end user", but is "passing to the next stage in the pipeline").