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
-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.
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
if (textconv_one == textconv_two && diff_unmodified_pair(p))
return 0;
+ if ((o->pickaxe_opts & DIFF_PICKAXE_KIND_G) &&
+ !o->flags.text &&
+ ((!textconv_one && diff_filespec_is_binary(o->repo, p->one)) ||
+ (!textconv_two && diff_filespec_is_binary(o->repo, p->two))))
+ return 0;
+
mf1.size = fill_textconv(o->repo, textconv_one, p->one, &mf1.ptr);
mf2.size = fill_textconv(o->repo, textconv_two, p->two, &mf2.ptr);
rm .gitattributes
'
+test_expect_success 'setup log -[GS] binary & --text' '
+ git checkout --orphan GS-binary-and-text &&
+ git read-tree --empty &&
+ printf "a\na\0a\n" >data.bin &&
+ git add data.bin &&
+ git commit -m "create binary file" data.bin &&
+ printf "a\na\0a\n" >>data.bin &&
+ git commit -m "modify binary file" data.bin &&
+ git rm data.bin &&
+ git commit -m "delete binary file" data.bin &&
+ git log >full-log
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'log -G ignores binary files' '
+ git log -Ga >log &&
+ test_must_be_empty log
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'log -G looks into binary files with -a' '
+ git log -a -Ga >log &&
+ test_cmp log full-log
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'log -G looks into binary files with textconv filter' '
+ test_when_finished "rm .gitattributes" &&
+ echo "* diff=bin" >.gitattributes &&
+ git -c diff.bin.textconv=cat log -Ga >log &&
+ test_cmp log full-log
+'
+
+test_expect_success 'log -S looks into binary files' '
+ git log -Sa >log &&
+ test_cmp log full-log
+'
+
test_done