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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-08-31 14:16:39 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2010-08-31 14:28:20 -0700
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gitdiffcore doc: update pickaxe description
The old text described the original design (one side does not have it at all while the other side has it); this was later amended to check if the number of occurrences changed, which is what we currently do with -S. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ changes that touch a specified string, and is controlled by the
commands.
When diffcore-pickaxe is in use, it checks if there are
-filepairs whose "result" side has the specified string and
-whose "origin" side does not. Such a filepair represents "the
-string appeared in this changeset". It also checks for the
+filepairs whose "result" side and whose "origin" side have
+different number of specified string. Such a filepair represents
+"the string appeared in this changeset". It also checks for the
opposite case that loses the specified string.
When `\--pickaxe-all` is not in effect, diffcore-pickaxe leaves