From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2007 08:08:30 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG/PATCH] git grep shows the same hit repeatedly for unmerged paths
Message-ID: <7v3auggs8x.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <4757A4DD.901@viscovery.net>

Johannes Sixt <j.sixt@viscovery.net> writes:

> 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.

Yeah, --cached should grep for each stage.  It doesn't?