From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 20:01:47 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add grep.fullName config variable
Message-ID: <878us79syc.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <mvmy507stf1.fsf@hawking.suse.de>

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
>
>> Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:
>>
>>> This configuration variable sets the default for the --full-name option.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
>>> ---
>>
>> Would this change break Porcelains (e.g. Emacs modes) and force them
>> to be updated to explicitly pass --no-full-name to unbreak them?
>
> Yes, that would be required.  On the other hand, currently it is
> impossible to cut-n-paste a file name without --full-name, since the
> pager is always started in top-level.  Perhaps it is better to fix the
> latter?

On the third hand, git grep isn't plumbing, so variation of output is to
be expected?  We already have grep.lineNumber and grep.patternType /
grep.extendedRegexp (vc-git-grep uses -n itself, but does not protect
against grep.patternType).

Andreas.

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