From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:14:10 GMT
Subject: Re: git-grep: small suggestion, -w flag
Message-ID: <20090222161410.GA24886@elte.hu>
In-Reply-To: <49A133C9.2030601@lsrfire.ath.cx>


* René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar schrieb:
> > Here's a stupid little git-grep suggestion.
> > 
> > I recently transitioned from the use of egrep to git-grep, and i 
> > like it very much (it nicely excludes build related files, 
> > etc.), but there's one small detail: the lack of the -w flag.
> 
> git grep knows this flag since version 1.4.1.  Does it do 
> something different from egrep's?

ah:

 earth4:~/tip> git grep -lw schedule
 usage: git grep <option>* [-e] <pattern> <rev>* [[--] <path>...]


should have been 'git grep -l -w schedule'.

	Ingo