* [BUG] The description of pickaxe in git-blame(1) is wrong
@ 2008-12-14 21:33 Jakub Narebski
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From: Jakub Narebski @ 2008-12-14 21:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I think that the description of how 'pickaxe' feature works in
Documentation/git-blame.txt is wrong. It says:
Apart from supporting file annotation, git also supports searching the
development history for when a code snippet occurred in a change. This makes it
possible to track when a code snippet was added to a file, moved or copied
between files, and eventually deleted or replaced. _It works by searching for
a text string in the diff_. A small example:
The part "It works by searching for a text string in the diff" is,
if I remember correctly, wrong. Actually it (I think) compares how
many matches are in pre-image and in post-image, and shows these
commits where those number differ.
This for example means that pickaxe would not pick commit which
moved a fragment from one place to other without change, I think.
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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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