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authorLibravatar Albert L. Lash, IV <alash3@bloomberg.net>2014-02-08 15:41:37 -0500
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2014-02-11 11:03:07 -0800
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docs/git-blame: explain more clearly the example pickaxe use
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> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -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`:
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$ git log --pretty=oneline -S'blame_usage'