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@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ gitdiffcore - Tweaking diff output
SYNOPSIS
--------
+[verse]
'git diff' *
DESCRIPTION
@@ -167,11 +168,11 @@ a similarity score different from the default of 50% by giving a
number after the "-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-{asterisk}' 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-{asterisk}' commands can detect copies only if the file that was
copied happened to have been modified in the same changeset.
@@ -223,7 +224,7 @@ diffcore-pickaxe: For Detecting Addition/Deletion of Specified String
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-{asterisk}'
+-S option and the `--pickaxe-all` option to the 'git diff-*'
commands.
When diffcore-pickaxe is in use, it checks if there are
@@ -232,9 +233,9 @@ 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
+When `--pickaxe-all` is not in effect, diffcore-pickaxe leaves
only such filepairs that touch 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