From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 May 2018 06:15:03 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 5/7] builtin/grep.c: add '--column' option to 'git-grep(1)'
Message-ID: <CACsJy8BdJ0=gWZQVfSqy-vjtZVT4uZNzRaPYxRYxx2WNzaLodw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <9a596d53d6b2523bc94e58678aa43e68068859b6.1525488108.git.me@ttaylorr.com>

On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 4:43 AM, Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com> wrote:
> Teach 'git-grep(1)' a new option, '--column', to show the column
> number of the first match on a non-context line.

Why? Or put it another way, what is this option used for? Only
git-jump? (which should also be mentioned here if true)

>
> For example:
>
>   $ git grep -n --column foo | head -n3
>   .clang-format:51:14:# myFunction(foo, bar, baz);
>   .clang-format:64:7:# int foo();
>   .clang-format:75:8:# void foo()
>
-- 
Duy