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

> On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 11:48, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> wrote:
> >
> > 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)
> 
> Your re-training failed miserable ;-)