From: Martin Ågren Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 20:53:01 +0000 (+0100) Subject: diff-options.txt: avoid "regex" overload in example X-Git-Tag: v2.25.1~4^2 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9299f84921e0bd076cf998aa852fadb73627756f;p=thirdparty%2Fgit.git diff-options.txt: avoid "regex" overload in example When we exemplify the difference between `-G` and `-S` (using `--pickaxe-regex`), we do so using an example diff and git-diff invocation involving "regexec", "regexp", "regmatch", ... The example is correct, but we can make it easier to untangle by avoiding writing "regex.*" unless it's really needed to make our point. Use some made-up, non-regexy words instead. Reported-by: Adam Dinwoodie Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren Reviewed-by: Taylor Blau Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt index 09faee3b44..bb31f0c42b 100644 --- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt +++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt @@ -567,13 +567,13 @@ To illustrate the difference between `-S --pickaxe-regex` and file: + ---- -+ return !regexec(regexp, two->ptr, 1, ®match, 0); ++ return frotz(nitfol, two->ptr, 1, 0); ... -- hit = !regexec(regexp, mf2.ptr, 1, ®match, 0); +- hit = frotz(nitfol, mf2.ptr, 1, 0); ---- + -While `git log -G"regexec\(regexp"` will show this commit, `git log --S"regexec\(regexp" --pickaxe-regex` will not (because the number of +While `git log -G"frotz\(nitfol"` will show this commit, `git log +-S"frotz\(nitfol" --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