Re: [RFC/PATCH v3] gitweb: Better cutting matched string and its context

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2008, 20:18 UTC
Message-ID: <7vskzghjrl.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200802252107.59366.jnareb@gmail.com>

Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> writes:

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> Ooops. Sorry about that. I have forgot to transport context when
> doing copy'n'paste.
> ...
> BTW. the example was subtly wrong: you can search _lines_, like grep,
> you cannot search multiline.

Yeah, the original had:

        For example, if you are looking for "very long ... and how"
        in the first paragraph of message (if it were all on a single
        line), wouldn't you want to see:

and you dropped "if it were all on a single line" part, as you forgot to transport context when doing copy-n-paste ;-)

> Below there is corrected commit message (rewritten to match code).

Thanks.  Will take a look later; I am at day-job today.