# Pickaxe usage question -- only matching on added string

1 messages from 2006-05-16 to 2006-05-16. Participants: Martin Langhoff.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/4155

## Martin Langhoff, 2006-05-16 03:37

Subject: Pickaxe usage question -- only matching on added string
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Documentation for diffcore-pickaxe (in Documentation/diffcore.txt) says:

When diffcore-pickaxe is in use, it checks if there are
filepairs whose "original" side has the specified string and
whose "result" side does not.  Such a filepair represents "the
string appeared in this changeset".  It also checks for the
opposite case that loses the specified string.

Now, is there a way to get diffcore to match only on 'added' (or on
'removed', for that matter)? I am tring to identify commtis that added
patches to a project, and I seem to be getting matches that add and
remove when I do:

   git-whatchanged -p -C -S"\t" master

cheers,


martin

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