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| author | Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr> | 2023-12-25 22:21:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2023-12-26 20:06:55 +0100 |
| commit | 2162f9f6f86df4f49c3a716b5beb3952104ea8b8 (patch) | |
| tree | 9f0fec3c23e0ef98bbb46ec8ceec200355330c89 /Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt | |
| parent | The third batch (diff) | |
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doc: enforce dashes in placeholders
The CodingGuidelines documents stipulates that multi-word placeholders
are to be separated by dashes, not underscores nor spaces.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt index 3cda2e07c2..642c51227b 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt @@ -245,20 +245,20 @@ diffcore-pickaxe: For Detecting Addition/Deletion of Specified String This transformation limits the set of filepairs to those that change specified strings between the preimage and the postimage in a certain -way. -S<block of text> and -G<regular expression> options are used to +way. -S<block-of-text> and -G<regular-expression> options are used to specify different ways these strings are sought. -"-S<block of text>" detects filepairs whose preimage and postimage +"-S<block-of-text>" detects filepairs whose preimage and postimage have different number of occurrences of the specified block of text. By definition, it will not detect in-file moves. Also, when a changeset moves a file wholesale without affecting the interesting string, diffcore-rename kicks in as usual, and `-S` omits the filepair (since the number of occurrences of that string didn't change in that rename-detected filepair). When used with `--pickaxe-regex`, treat -the <block of text> as an extended POSIX regular expression to match, +the <block-of-text> as an extended POSIX regular expression to match, instead of a literal string. -"-G<regular expression>" (mnemonic: grep) detects filepairs whose +"-G<regular-expression>" (mnemonic: grep) detects filepairs whose textual diff has an added or a deleted line that matches the given regular expression. This means that it will detect in-file (or what rename-detection considers the same file) moves, which is noise. The |