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[PATCH 0/2] Teach 'git grep' about --open-files-in-pager=[<pager>]

From
Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date
Mar 26, 2010, 10:48 UTC
Message-ID
<alpine.DEB.1.00.1003261145500.7596@pacific.mpi-cbg.de>

This supports opening the results of a 'git grep' directly in a pager (where the pager can be 'vi', too).

This series is purely about convenience, everything the option does can be done with a regular script or command line.

But I saw so many people doing their own scripts for that, and in many cases, they are subtly broken (e.g.

	git grep -z <expr> | xargs -0r vi +/<expr>

would work as long as you do not have to check the exit status of git grep from another script) that I finally decided to go for it and send this patch pair.

My most common use case for this is to do something like
	git grep -Ovi SomeJustRenamedFile
to edit all files I might have forgotten to change after a git mv.

(Actually, to be honest, my use case involves -Pvi, but I will have to retrain my hands.)

Johannes Schindelin (2):
  grep: Add the option '--open-files-in-pager'
  grep -P: allow optional argument specifying the pager (or editor)
 Documentation/git-grep.txt |    8 +++++
 builtin-grep.c             |   74 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 git.c                      |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
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Message 1 of 20 in “Teach 'git grep' about --open-files-in-pager=[<pager>]”
  1. 0/2 Teach 'git grep' about --open-files-in-pager=[<pager>]Johannes Schindelin, Mar 26, 2010
  2. 1/2 grep: Add the option '--open-files-in-pager'Johannes Schindelin, Mar 26, 2010
  3. Jonathan NiederMar 28, 2010
  4. Johannes SchindelinMar 29, 2010
  5. Junio C HamanoMar 29, 2010
  6. 2/2 grep -P: allow optional argument specifying the pager (or editor)Johannes Schindelin, Mar 26, 2010
  7. Johannes SchindelinMar 26, 2010
  8. Bert WesargMar 26, 2010
  9. Johannes SchindelinMar 26, 2010
  10. Bert WesargMar 26, 2010
  11. Jeff KingMar 26, 2010
  12. Johannes SchindelinMar 26, 2010
  13. Jeff KingMar 26, 2010
  14. Junio C HamanoMar 26, 2010
  15. Francis MoreauMar 26, 2010
  16. Junio C HamanoMar 27, 2010
  17. Francis MoreauMar 27, 2010
  18. Junio C HamanoMar 27, 2010
  19. Francis MoreauMar 27, 2010
  20. Jon SeymourMar 26, 2010

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