diff options
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/diff-options.txt | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt | 3 |
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 0378cd574e..b94d332f71 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/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. diff --git a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt index c0a60f3158..c970d9fe43 100644 --- a/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt +++ b/Documentation/gitdiffcore.txt @@ -242,7 +242,8 @@ textual diff has an added or a deleted line that matches the given regular expression. This means that it will detect in-file (or what rename-detection considers the same file) moves, which is noise. The implementation runs diff twice and greps, and this can be quite -expensive. +expensive. To speed things up binary files without textconv filters +will be ignored. When `-S` or `-G` are used without `--pickaxe-all`, only filepairs that match their respective criterion are kept in the output. When |