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Re: [PATCH 4/4] docs/git-blame: explain more clearly the example pickaxe use

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date
Feb 11, 2014, 00:21 UTC
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"Albert L. Lash, IV" <albert.lash@gmail.com> writes:
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> We state that the following paragraph mentions the pickaxe
> interface, but the term pickaxe is not then used. This
> change clarifies that the example command uses the pickaxe
> interface and what it is searching for.
>
> Signed-off-by: Albert L. Lash, IV <alash3@bloomberg.net>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-blame.txt | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-blame.txt b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
> index 8e70a61..ddb88d0 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-blame.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-blame.txt
> @@ -35,7 +35,8 @@ Apart from supporting file annotation, Git also supports searching the
>  development history for when a code snippet occurred in a change. This makes it
>  possible to track when a code snippet was added to a file, moved or copied
>  between files, and eventually deleted or replaced. It works by searching for
> -a text string in the diff. A small example:
> +a text string in the diff. A small example of the pickaxe interface 
> +that searches for `blame_usage`:
>  
>  -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  $ git log --pretty=oneline -S'blame_usage'
Thanks.

I cannot shake this nagging feeling that this and the latter half of the previous paragraph may not belong to this page, though.

Will queue.
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  1. 1/4 docs/merge-strategies: remove hyphen from mis-mergesAlbert L. Lash, IV, Feb 8, 2014
  2. 2/4 docs/git-remote: capitalize first word of initial blurbAlbert L. Lash, IV, Feb 8, 2014
  3. 3/4 docs/git-clone: clarify use of --no-hardlinks optionAlbert L. Lash, IV, Feb 8, 2014
  4. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2014
  5. 4/4 docs/git-blame: explain more clearly the example pickaxe useAlbert L. Lash, IV, Feb 8, 2014
  6. Junio C HamanoFeb 11, 2014
  7. Junio C HamanoFeb 10, 2014

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