Re: [PATCH] git-grep: --and to combine patterns with and instead of or

From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Jun 30, 2006, 18:20 UTC
Message-ID: <E1FwNb7-0000BL-Ad@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7vfyhmil07.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> writes:
> 
> > -e foo --or  --near \( -e A -- or -e B \)
> > would mean lines containing foo or having A or B in the context.
> 
> How would that "--near" be useful?  You will see A or B either way.

Ok, this example was quite bad.

If --near is binary -e foo --and ( --near=3:0 -e A --or --near=0:3 -e B ) could not be done anymore, could it (without repeating the first pattern)? (Find foo with A in the 3 lines before or B in the 3 lines after the line.) Without different contexts for multiple --near it probably does not matter if --near is binary or unary.