Re: [PATCH v2 2/6] grep.c: take column number as argument to show_line()

> Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > I think when we add features to git-grep we should be as close to GNU
> > grep as possible (e.g. not add this -m alias meaning something different
> > as in your v1), but if GNU grep doesn't have something go with the trend
> > of other grep tools, as noted at
> > https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/ (and I found another one that
> > has this: https://github.com/beyondgrep/website/pull/83), so there's
> > already 3 prominent grep tools that call this just --column.
> >
> > I think we should just go with that.
>
> OK.  If they called it --column-number, that might have been more in
> line with GNU grep's --line-number, but that is not something we can
> dictate retroactively anyway, so --column to match them would be
> better than trying to be consistent and ending up with being
> different from everybody else.