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@@ -22,8 +22,8 @@ The git-diff-* family works by first comparing two sets of
files:
- git-diff-index compares contents of a "tree" object and the
- working directory (when '--cached' flag is not used) or a
- "tree" object and the index file (when '--cached' flag is
+ working directory (when '\--cached' flag is not used) or a
+ "tree" object and the index file (when '\--cached' flag is
used);
- git-diff-files compares contents of the index file and the
@@ -164,11 +164,11 @@ similarity score different from the default 50% by giving a
number after "-M" or "-C" option (e.g. "-M8" to tell it to use
8/10 = 80%).
-Note. When the "-C" option is used with --find-copies-harder
+Note. When the "-C" option is used with `\--find-copies-harder`
option, git-diff-\* commands feed unmodified filepairs to
diffcore mechanism as well as modified ones. This lets the copy
detector consider unmodified files as copy source candidates at
-the expense of making it slower. Without --find-copies-harder,
+the expense of making it slower. Without `\--find-copies-harder`,
git-diff-\* commands can detect copies only if the file that was
copied happened to have been modified in the same changeset.
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ diffcore-pickaxe
This transformation is used to find filepairs that represent
changes that touch a specified string, and is controlled by the
--S option and the --pickaxe-all option to the git-diff-*
+-S option and the `\--pickaxe-all` option to the git-diff-*
commands.
When diffcore-pickaxe is in use, it checks if there are
@@ -229,9 +229,9 @@ 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.
-When --pickaxe-all is not in effect, diffcore-pickaxe leaves
+When `\--pickaxe-all` is not in effect, diffcore-pickaxe leaves
only such filepairs that touches the specified string in its
-output. When --pickaxe-all is used, diffcore-pickaxe leaves all
+output. When `\--pickaxe-all` is used, diffcore-pickaxe leaves all
filepairs intact if there is such a filepair, or makes the
output empty otherwise. The latter behaviour is designed to
make reviewing of the changes in the context of the whole