From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 02 May 2011 16:38:55 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/4] grep: support to match by line number
Message-ID: <7vfwoxoy5c.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <cover.1304318972.git.bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>

I am personally not thrilled by what this series attempts to do, but first
a few questions:

 - Are there existing non-git "grep" implementations that do this?

 - If yes:
   - what command option letter do they use to specify line number?
   - do they not support a range notation (e.g. -@ 25-30,32-40)?
   - what do they do when given more than one file?

 - If no:
   - why not?  Is it a sign that this is ill-thought out misfeature?
   - perhaps people use something like "sed -n -e 25,30p file" and be
     happy?