Re: [PATCH 1/1] git-grep: improve the --show-function behaviour

> René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de> writes:
>
>>>> To me, this behaviour looks as
>>>>
>>>> 		Show the preceding line that contains the function name of
>>>> 		the match, unless the _PREVIOUS_ matching line is a function
>>>> 		name itself.
>>
>> To me it looks like:
>>
>> 		Show the preceding line that contains the function name of
>> 		the match.
>>
>> ("Show" meaning "show once", not "show for each match again and again".)
>>
>> Or:
>>
>> 		Show the preceding line that contains the function name of
>> 		the match, unless it is already shown for a different
>> 		reason, e.g. as a match or as the function line of a
>> 		previous match.
>
> Wow, that was a mouthful, but matches my understanding.  I naïvely
> thought "when showing a hit, we may add the line that matches the
> function header pattern before the hit even that header line does
> not hit the grep pattern. But if the header line does hit the grep
> pattern, we do not bother show the same thing twice." was a
> reasonable goal to have.