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authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>2005-05-21 02:40:01 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org>2005-05-21 09:58:03 -0700
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[PATCH] Introducing software archaeologist's tool "pickaxe".
This steals the "pickaxe" feature from JIT and make it available to the bare Plumbing layer. From the command line, the user gives a string he is intersted in. Using the diff-core infrastructure previously introduced, it filters the differences to limit the output only to the diffs between <src> and <dst> where the string appears only in one but not in the other. For example: $ ./git-rev-list HEAD | ./git-diff-tree -Sdiff-tree-helper --stdin -M would show the diffs that touch the string "diff-tree-helper". In real software-archaeologist application, you would typically look for a few to several lines of code and see where that code came from. The "pickaxe" module runs after "rename/copy detection" module, so it even crosses the file rename boundary, as the above example demonstrates. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ git-diff-helper - Generates patch format output for git-diff-*
SYNOPSIS
--------
-'git-diff-helper' [-z] [-R] [-M] [-C]
+'git-diff-helper' [-z] [-R] [-M] [-C] [-S<string>]
DESCRIPTION
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@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@ OPTIONS
-C::
Detect copies as well as renames.
+-S<string>::
+ Look for differences that contains the change in <string>.
+
+
See Also
--------
The section on generating patches in link:git-diff-cache.html[git-diff-cache]