From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2010 19:49:06 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Teach 'git grep' about --open-files-in-pager=[<pager>]
Message-ID: <2cfc40321003261249g32ba4472x9786a86830ec9813@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100326124650.GA12215@coredump.intra.peff.net>

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:48:41AM +0100, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>
>> This supports opening the results of a 'git grep' directly in a pager
>> (where the pager can be 'vi', too).
>
> This is not an argument against your patch, but you may be interested in
> an alternate method:
>
>  git grep -n $pattern >grep.out
>  vim -q grep.out

Or, in bash:

    vim -q <(git grep -n $pattern)

though, of course you don't get the exit code from git.

jon.