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-rw-r--r--Documentation/diff-options.txt5
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diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
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@@ -176,7 +176,10 @@ override configuration settings.
number.
-S<string>::
- Look for differences that contain the change in <string>.
+ Look for differences that introduce or remove an instance of
+ <string>. Note that this is different than the string simply
+ appearing in diff output; see the 'pickaxe' entry in
+ linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more details.
--pickaxe-all::
When -S finds a change, show all the changes in that