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From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Subject: Re: Something wrong with pickaxe?
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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 ;-).