From: Junio C Hamano Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 18:57:47 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properly Message-ID: <7v4ne5jsno.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Phil Hord writes: > 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").