[PATCH] Introducing software archaeologist's tool "pickaxe".

This steals the "pickaxe" feature from JIT and make it available
to the bare Plumbing layer.  From the command line, the user
gives a string he is intersted in.

Using the diff-core infrastructure previously introduced, it
filters the differences to limit the output only to the diffs
between <src> and <dst> where the string appears only in one but
not in the other.  For example:

 $ ./git-rev-list HEAD | ./git-diff-tree -Sdiff-tree-helper --stdin -M

would show the diffs that touch the string "diff-tree-helper".

In real software-archaeologist application, you would typically
look for a few to several lines of code and see where that code
came from.

The "pickaxe" module runs after "rename/copy detection" module,
so it even crosses the file rename boundary, as the above
example demonstrates.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/diff.h b/diff.h
index 86a645afee..97d39ac961 100644
--- a/diff.h
+++ b/diff.h
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ extern void diff_unmerge(const char *path);
 extern int diff_scoreopt_parse(const char *opt);
 
 extern void diff_setup(int detect_rename, int minimum_score,
+		       char *pickaxe,
 		       int reverse, int raw_output,
 		       const char **spec, int cnt);