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Teach "-G<regexp>" that is similar to "-S<regexp> --pickaxe-regexp" to the "git diff" family of commands. This limits the diff queue to filepairs whose patch text actually has an added or a deleted line that matches the given regexp. Unlike "-S<regexp>", changing other parts of the line that has a substring that matches the given regexp IS counted as a change, as such a change would appear as one deletion followed by one addition in a patch text. Unlike -S (pickaxe) that is intended to be used to quickly detect a commit that changes the number of occurrences of hits between the preimage and the postimage to serve as a part of larger toolchain, this is meant to be used as the top-level Porcelain feature. The implementation unfortunately has to run "diff" twice if you are running "log" family of commands to produce patches in the final output (e.g. "git log -p" or "git format-patch"). I think we _could_ cache the result in-core if we wanted to, but that would require larger surgery to the diffcore machinery (i.e. adding an extra pointer in the filepair structure to keep a pointer to a strbuf around, stuff the textual diff to the strbuf inside diffgrep_consume(), and make use of it in later stages when it is available) and it may not be worth it. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>maint
Junio C Hamano
15 years ago
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