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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 0378cd574e..b94d332f71 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -524,6 +524,8 @@ struct), and want to know the history of that block since it first came into being: use the feature iteratively to feed the interesting block in the preimage back into `-S`, and keep going until you get the very first version of the block. ++ +Binary files are searched as well. -G<regex>:: Look for differences whose patch text contains added/removed @@ -543,6 +545,9 @@ While `git log -G"regexec\(regexp"` will show this commit, `git log -S"regexec\(regexp" --pickaxe-regex` will not (because the number of occurrences of that string did not change). + +Unless `--text` is supplied patches of binary files without a textconv +filter will be ignored. ++ See the 'pickaxe' entry in linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more information. |