From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 22:44:34 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-grep: --and to combine patterns with and instead of or
Message-ID: <7vejx7oa3x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060629222009.GA9310@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>

Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@stud.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

> Hello,
>
>> *AND* more than one pattern. (something I miss in normal grep)
>
> so do I.

So do I.

I am wondering if we would rather want to do something like
expression `find` command let's you build.  In other words:

	git grep --extended-expression '(' 'foo' -o 'bar' ')' -a 'frotz'

might be what we would eventually want.  And I have this nagging
suspicion that if we allow to say something like this

	git grep --and -e a -e b

right now, it would make it more cumbersome (read: backward
compatibility wart) to support both styles later.

I could be talked into

	git grep -e a -a -e b

but that would already be building that expression engine, so...