From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 23:05:11 GMT Subject: Re: Fix "git log -z" behaviour Message-ID: 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