From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:20:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-grep: --and to combine patterns with and instead of or
Message-ID: <E1FwNb7-0000BL-Ad@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <7vfyhmil07.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

Junio C Hamano wrote:
> 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.