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Re: Add "git grep" helper

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date
Sep 12, 2005, 21:37 UTC
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<Pine.LNX.4.58.0509121434410.3266@g5.osdl.org>
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On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Morten Welinder wrote:
>
> Cute, but what about grep flags like "-w", "-n", and "-c"?

Hey, add them to the flags list. Or just pass in all flags to grep, I dunno (I was kind of expecting some flags to go to git-ls-files, but that may or may not make any sense, and my script obviously didn't end up doing that).

		Linus
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  1. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  2. Morten WelinderSep 12, 2005
  3. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  4. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  5. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  6. Improve "git grep" flags handlingLinus Torvalds, Sep 12, 2005
  7. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  8. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  9. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  10. Linus TorvaldsSep 12, 2005
  11. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005
  12. Improve "git grep" flags handlingJunio C Hamano, Sep 13, 2005
  13. Junio C HamanoSep 12, 2005

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