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Re: How to restrict command “git grep” to the first search result per file?

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PWPhillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
Date
Jul 6, 2025, 13:27 UTC
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Hi Markus
On 06/07/2025 12:28, Markus Elfring wrote:
> File contents can be searched also by the means of the program call “git grep”.
> Would you become interested to find specified items only once in each file
> (instead of multiple times)?

Looking at the man page for git grep there is a --max-count option which will limit the number of matches per file.

Thanks
Phillip
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  1. Markus ElfringJul 6, 2025
  2. Andreas SchwabJul 6, 2025
  3. Markus ElfringJul 6, 2025
  4. Markus ElfringJul 8, 2025
  5. Phillip WoodJul 6, 2025

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