Re: [PATCH] built-in "git grep" (git grip).
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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Date
- May 2, 2006, 21:23 UTC
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- <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605021422200.4086@g5.osdl.org>
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On Tue, 2 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote:
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> > - The shell-script one, if you use GNU grep, accepts more > options to grep than what the current built-in one supports. > Notable ones that are missing: fixed strings (-F), patterns > from file (-f), count matches (-c), omit filenames (-h), > skipping binary files (-I, -U), files without match (-L), > pcre (-P), silent (-q), word expression (-w), NUL (-z). They > should be easy to add if somebody cares enough, and I plan to > do a few myself before pushing it out to "master".
I use "-w" all the time, along with -5 or similar to get context for the grep.
Linus