From: Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 07:29:33 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG/PATCH] git grep shows the same hit repeatedly for unmerged paths
Message-ID: <4757A4DD.901@viscovery.net>
In-Reply-To: <7vsl2gk7e3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

Junio C Hamano schrieb:
> When the index is unmerged, e.g.
> 
> 	$ git ls-files -u
>         100644 faf413748eb6ccb15161a212156c5e348302b1b6 1	setup.c
>         100644 145eca50f41d811c4c8fcb21ed2604e6b2971aba 2	setup.c
>         100644 cb9558c49b6027bf225ba2a6154c4d2a52bcdbe2 3	setup.c
> 
> running "git grep" for work tree files repeats hits for each unmerged
> stage.
> 
> 	$ git grep -n -e setup_work_tree -- '*.[ch]'
>         setup.c:209:void setup_work_tree(void)
>         setup.c:209:void setup_work_tree(void)
>         setup.c:209:void setup_work_tree(void)
> 
> This should fix it.

Does this change the behavior of grep --cached? IOW, listing the same hit
more than once when --cached is given is a feature, IMHO.

-- Hannes