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Re: [PATCH] diffcore-pickaxe: make error messages more consistent

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Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>
Date
May 14, 2013, 18:15 UTC
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Junio C Hamano wrote:
> I am debating myself if it is truly easier to explain for users that
> "-G" is a different variant of pickaxe.

Hm, I think it is the correct approach because readers of diffcore are probably going to look at the source: it's not exactly an end-user manpage. I've not explained it as G king versus S kind in the diff-options documentation.

Or are you just talking about the error message? That's simple: --pickaxe-regex is what triggers this off, and we've made it clear that it applies to both commands (-G implicitly; see doc).

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