Re: [PATCH] grep --no-index: allow use of "git grep" outside a git repository

From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Date: Jan 18, 2010, 01:51 UTC
Message-ID: <20100118015140.GB6831@coredump.intra.peff.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vpr5ait1m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Jan 15, 2010 at 08:15:49PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Realistically, this most often is used when grepping in the log, e.g.
> 
>     git log --all-match --author=peff --grep=test
> 
> I actually wish "log" to somehow default to --all-match mode at least when
> using the --author option.  "Change by Jeff, or about test by anybody" is
> rarely what I would want to look for.

Agreed. That is the most common log grep pattern for me (author + grep), and I always want all-match. I see from later in the thread, though, that implementing it is not as straightforward as we might hope.

I would personally be fine with "--all-match" being the default, but that may be too big a change in behavior for some people to swallow (I would also be fine with log.allmatch in the config, but every time I suggest something like that people's heads explode and I get told to make an alias).

-Peff