NAME
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-gitdiffcore - Tweaking diff output (June 2005)
+gitdiffcore - Tweaking diff output
SYNOPSIS
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+[verse]
'git diff' *
DESCRIPTION
For the purpose of breaking a filepair, diffcore-break examines
the extent of changes between the contents of the files before
and after modification (i.e. the contents that have "bcd1234..."
-and "0123456..." as their SHA1 content ID, in the above
+and "0123456..." as their SHA-1 content ID, in the above
example). The amount of deletion of original contents and
insertion of new material are added together, and if it exceeds
the "break score", the filepair is broken into two. The break
number after the "-M" or "-C" option (e.g. "-M8" to tell it to use
8/10 = 80%).
-Note. When the "-C" option is used with `\--find-copies-harder`
+Note. When the "-C" option is used with `--find-copies-harder`
option, 'git diff-{asterisk}' commands feed unmodified filepairs to
diffcore mechanism as well as modified ones. This lets the copy
detector consider unmodified files as copy source candidates at
-the expense of making it slower. Without `\--find-copies-harder`,
+the expense of making it slower. Without `--find-copies-harder`,
'git diff-{asterisk}' commands can detect copies only if the file that was
copied happened to have been modified in the same changeset.
This transformation is used to find filepairs that represent
changes that touch a specified string, and is controlled by the
--S option and the `\--pickaxe-all` option to the 'git diff-{asterisk}'
+-S option and the `--pickaxe-all` option to the 'git diff-*'
commands.
When diffcore-pickaxe is in use, it checks if there are
-filepairs whose "original" side has the specified string and
-whose "result" side does not. Such a filepair represents "the
-string appeared in this changeset". It also checks for the
+filepairs whose "result" side and whose "origin" side have
+different number of specified string. Such a filepair represents
+"the string appeared in this changeset". It also checks for the
opposite case that loses the specified string.
-When `\--pickaxe-all` is not in effect, diffcore-pickaxe leaves
+When `--pickaxe-all` is not in effect, diffcore-pickaxe leaves
only such filepairs that touch the specified string in its
-output. When `\--pickaxe-all` is used, diffcore-pickaxe leaves all
+output. When `--pickaxe-all` is used, diffcore-pickaxe leaves all
filepairs intact if there is such a filepair, or makes the
output empty otherwise. The latter behaviour is designed to
make reviewing of the changes in the context of the whole
in the file are output before ones that match a later line, and
filepairs that do not match any glob pattern are output last.
-As an example, a typical orderfile for the core git probably
+As an example, a typical orderfile for the core Git probably
would look like this:
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