Re: Fix "git log -z" behaviour

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Feb 7, 2007, 23:05 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0702071503100.8424@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <68948ca0702071453i3c4d1b66hcf173fc17919acd6@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Don Zickus wrote:

> 
> And I thought I had a handle on a lot of the Unix commands.  That -z
> stuff just threw me for a loop.  It's pretty neat to be able to grep
> commits and have the output display the whole commit and diff.

The whole "-z" flag to grep is a GNU extension, as far as I know. I don't think it's portable.

Even for GNU grep, it's not mentioned in the man-page. Whether that is just due to the normal inane FSF rules ("man-pages are evil, you should use those idiotic info pages") or whether it is a conscious effort to not document nonstandard features, I don't know.

		Linus