Re: [PATCH] grep: expose "status-only" feature via -q

From: Stephen Boyd <bebarino@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 28, 2010, 16:32 UTC
Message-ID: <4B61BC02.3070408@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vk4v53gek.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On 01/25/2010 03:37 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:

Show 7 quoted lines

> @@ -505,6 +512,8 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
>   		{ OPTION_CALLBACK, ')', NULL,&opt, NULL, "",
>   		  PARSE_OPT_NOARG | PARSE_OPT_NONEG | PARSE_OPT_NODASH,
>   		  close_callback },
> +		OPT_BOOLEAN('q', "quick",&opt.status_only,
> +			    "indicate hit with exit status without output"),
>

Why isn't this --quiet just like grep? I think this might be mistaken for enabling threads or some fancy algorithm to go faster.