From: Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 17:47:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] diffcore-pickaxe doc: document -S and -G properly
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In-Reply-To: <CABURp0r808KeSRwhgPw98vUC+JSErvSYHFyAvn-=8JhQzn8e1Q@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 1:44 PM, Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 10:12 AM, Ramkumar Ramachandra
> <artagnon@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  -S<string>::
>> -       Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of
>> -       <string>. Note that this is different than the string simply
>> -       appearing in diff output; see the 'pickaxe' entry in
>> -       linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details.
>> +       Look for commits where the specified string was added or
>> +       removed.  More precisely, find commits that change the number
>> +       of occurrences of the specified string.
>> ++
>> +It is often useful when you're looking for an exact string (like a
>> +function prototype), and want to know the history of that string since
>> +it first came into being.
>>
>>  -G<regex>::
>
> It looks like you have deleted the -S and -G references here.  Am I
> reading this right?

Doy!  Yes, I was reading it wrong.  Sorry for the noise there.

Phil