Re: teach git diff -v/--invert-match?

> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:29:31PM -0500, Brian Ericson wrote:
>
>> I was just working on a reply to my own email as I realized it was
>> only  dumb-luck that converted 1200 noisy changes into a couple of
>> dozen.  "-S" matches only  the string itself, not the line the string
>> resides on.  So, -Sxyz will match if  "xyz" itself was added or
>> deleted in the diff (if "xyz" is on a line that's changed but  did not
>> itself change, it won't match).  Funny that I actually knew this -- I
>> use it to look for System.out.println additions among other things.
>
> Yes (though I couldn't have told you that without experimenting -- I
> always assumed it checked whole lines).