From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 00:38:18 GMT
Subject: Re: teach git diff -v/--invert-match?
Message-ID: <20080827003818.GD7347@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <48B27E51.2020709@gnu.org>

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:41:37AM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:

> > 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