From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: Something wrong with pickaxe?
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2006 16:25:17 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7v3bjlt66q.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0601181541150.3240@g5.osdl.org> (Linus Torvalds's message of "Wed, 18 Jan 2006 15:55:13 -0800 (PST)")
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:
> So when you use pickaxe, you really want to match the whole line you're
> looking for - otherwise you'll only see when people add or remove a
> particular string, not when they change things around it. Even then, if
> that particular line gets _moved_ (but otherwise is unchanged) pickaxe
> won't pick it up.
True. I always feed at least couple of lines to it.
> ... Junio would be open to
> more friendly pickaxe semantics if the suggested semantics change was
> accompanied by an actual diff to implement them.
True again. It is hard to be "more friendly" without actually
generating a diff ;-).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-19 0:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-01-18 23:23 Something wrong with pickaxe? Johannes Schindelin
2006-01-18 23:55 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-19 0:25 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2006-01-19 9:12 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-19 18:24 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-19 19:10 ` Andreas Ericsson
2006-01-19 2:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2006-01-19 2:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-01-19 3:29 ` Junio C Hamano
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