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| author | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-01-18 15:16:05 -0800 |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2019-01-18 15:16:05 -0800 |
| commit | ace33e4fa1aa5ba14bafe92218bf07dea068791f (patch) | |
| tree | 0ad7636f0f64e4f949fd65f468e206bc0a5d969b /diff-options.txt | |
| parent | de48f457367f37c28229ebe8e6cef849dd6e430a (diff) | |
| download | git-htmldocs-ace33e4fa1aa5ba14bafe92218bf07dea068791f.tar.gz | |
Autogenerated HTML docs for v2.20.1-309-g16a465
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diff --git a/diff-options.txt b/diff-options.txt index 0378cd574..b94d332f7 100644 --- a/diff-options.txt +++ b/diff-options.txt @@ -524,6 +524,8 @@ struct), and want to know the history of that block since it first came into being: use the feature iteratively to feed the interesting block in the preimage back into `-S`, and keep going until you get the very first version of the block. ++ +Binary files are searched as well. -G<regex>:: Look for differences whose patch text contains added/removed @@ -543,6 +545,9 @@ While `git log -G"regexec\(regexp"` will show this commit, `git log -S"regexec\(regexp" --pickaxe-regex` will not (because the number of occurrences of that string did not change). + +Unless `--text` is supplied patches of binary files without a textconv +filter will be ignored. ++ See the 'pickaxe' entry in linkgit:gitdiffcore[7] for more information. |