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From: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Ramkumar Ramachandra <artagnon@gmail.com>,
	Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>,
	Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Subject: [PATCH] diff-options.txt: correct command syntax
Date: Sun,  2 Feb 2020 19:22:26 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200202192226.29176-1-adam@dinwoodie.org> (raw)

Change the example arguments in the description of the -G diff argument
to be consistent throughout the description.

Signed-off-by: Adam Dinwoodie <adam@dinwoodie.org>
---
 Documentation/diff-options.txt | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/diff-options.txt b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
index 09faee3b44..84a74cb2da 100644
--- a/Documentation/diff-options.txt
+++ b/Documentation/diff-options.txt
@@ -561,19 +561,19 @@ Binary files are searched as well.
 -G<regex>::
 	Look for differences whose patch text contains added/removed
 	lines that match <regex>.
 +
 To illustrate the difference between `-S<regex> --pickaxe-regex` and
 `-G<regex>`, consider a commit with the following diff in the same
 file:
 +
 ----
 +    return !regexec(regexp, two->ptr, 1, &regmatch, 0);
 ...
 -    hit = !regexec(regexp, mf2.ptr, 1, &regmatch, 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<regex>` will show this commit, `git log
+-S<regex> --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
-- 
2.25.0


             reply	other threads:[~2020-02-02 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-02 19:22 Adam Dinwoodie [this message]
2020-02-02 19:45 ` [PATCH] diff-options.txt: correct command syntax Martin Ågren
2020-02-02 20:47   ` Adam Dinwoodie
2020-02-03  6:24     ` Martin Ågren
2020-02-06 20:53     ` [PATCH] diff-options.txt: avoid "regex" overload in example Martin Ågren
2020-02-08 23:24       ` Taylor Blau
2020-02-09 17:25         ` Junio C Hamano

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