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Re: git-grep: small suggestion, -w flag

From
René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date
Feb 22, 2009, 11:15 UTC
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Ingo Molnar schrieb:
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> Here's a stupid little git-grep suggestion.
> 
> I recently transitioned from the use of egrep to git-grep, and i 
> like it very much (it nicely excludes build related files, 
> etc.), but there's one small detail: the lack of the -w flag.

git grep knows this flag since version 1.4.1. Does it do something different from egrep's?

René
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