Re: [PATCH] git grep: Add "-Z/--null" option as in GNU's grep.

From: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Date: Sep 30, 2008, 23:16 UTC
Message-ID: <20080930231619.GR21310@spearce.org>
In-Reply-To: <1222816390-9141-1-git-send-email-killekulla@rdrz.de>

Raphael Zimmerer <killekulla@rdrz.de> wrote:

> Here's a trivial patch that adds "-Z" and "--null" options to "git
> grep" equal to GNU's grep.
> So things like 'git grep -l -Z "$FOO" | xargs -0 sed -i "s/$FOO/$BOO/"'
> are more comfortable.

Elsewhere in Git we call this "-z", like "git ls-tree -z", "git
log -z".  Should we match grep or git convention here?

>  Documentation/git-grep.txt |    6 ++++++
>  builtin-grep.c             |    7 +++++++
>  grep.c                     |   14 +++++++++++---
>  grep.h                     |    1 +

-- 
Shawn.