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request: add git grep -o option

From
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date
Oct 30, 2019, 19:58 UTC
Message-ID
<277ee7531df8dfd3249f189b9b298a5d187ec479.camel@perches.com>

Instead of duplicating a grep pattern with grep -oh after git grep like this:

$ git grep -P '(?:[a-z0-9_]+_)?for_each(?:_[a-z0-9_]+)?' -- '*.[ch]' | \
  grep -P -oh '(?:[a-z0-9_]+_)?for_each(?:_[a-z0-9_]+)?'

it could be useful to have git grep have the same '-o' option as gnu grep.

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