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authorLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-03-20 14:31:15 -0700
committerLibravatar Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2009-03-20 14:31:15 -0700
commit2d893d6822458ea15ef74e2b8be563945a6296fc (patch)
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parentMerge branch 'mv/parseopt-ls-files' (diff)
parentdoc: clarify how -S works (diff)
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Merge branch 'maint'
* maint: doc: clarify how -S works
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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
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@@ -176,7 +176,10 @@ override configuration settings.
number.
-S<string>::
- Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
+ Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of
+ <string>. Note that this is different than the string simply
+ appearing in diff output; see the 'pickaxe' entry in
+ linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details.
--pickaxe-all::
When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that