From: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 09:41:37 GMT
Subject: Re: teach git diff -v/--invert-match?
Message-ID: <48B27E51.2020709@gnu.org>
In-Reply-To: <20080822193947.GA31322@coredump.intra.peff.net>


> I would have thought "-v" meant "match any changes which do not have
> this pattern". But you want "match any changes that have any line which
> does not have this pattern."

Yours could be "-L/--without-match" (in grep, -L/--files-without-match
only prints the names of files containing no match).

Paolo