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Re: teach git diff -v/--invert-match?

From
Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date
Aug 27, 2008, 00:38 UTC
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<20080827003818.GD7347@coredump.intra.peff.net>
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On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:41:37AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
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> > I would have thought "-v" meant "match any changes which do not have
> > this pattern". But you want "match any changes that have any line which
> > does not have this pattern."
> 
> Yours could be "-L/--without-match" (in grep, -L/--files-without-match
> only prints the names of files containing no match).

Ah, yes, that would be better. I think we decided that Brian's original problem didn't really work with -S, and I don't actually need this behavior enough to implement it. But your suggestion is a good one if somebody cares to do so.

-Peff
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Message 7 of 7 in “teach git diff -v/--invert-match?”
  1. Brian EricsonAug 22, 2008
  2. Jeff KingAug 22, 2008
  3. Brian EricsonAug 22, 2008
  4. Jeff KingAug 22, 2008
  5. Junio C HamanoAug 22, 2008
  6. Paolo BonziniAug 25, 2008
  7. Jeff KingAug 27, 2008

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