Re: [PATCH] git-grep: --and to combine patterns with and instead of or
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> I see you are trying hard to think of a way to justify your
> original prefix "--and" (or --FOO) implementation, but I simply
> do not see much point in that. I doubt changing the default
> operator from --or to --and is less confusing than changing the
> precedence for the users, so you would hear the same "I
> personally feel FOO should not even exist" objection from me.
It just happens to make more sense to me and I don't see a reason not to
add this. If no one else is interested in this I'll just stop arguing :)
Here again an overview of the arguments if anyone is interested:
- Less to type for common searches using only AND (or more ANDs than
ORs).
- Easy to implement (both with and without extended expressions).
- AND/* is the normal implicit operator in other contexts than grep
(math).
- The high precedence operator (AND) should be implicit rather than
the low precedence one (OR) (so this is only fulfilled when the
option is used).