From: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2011 12:26:17 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] grep: add --heading
Message-ID: <loom.20110606T141954-541@post.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <4DEB9FB4.8020904@lsrfire.ath.cx>

René Scharfe <rene.scharfe <at> lsrfire.ath.cx> writes:
> 
> This option is taken from ack (http://betterthangrep.com/).  And now
> git grep can dress up like it:
> 
> 	$ git config alias.ack "grep --break --heading --line-number"
> 
> 	$ git ack -e --heading
> 	Documentation/git-grep.txt
> 	154:--heading::
> 	
> 	t/t7810-grep.sh
> 	785:test_expect_success 'grep --heading' '
> 	786:    git grep --heading -e char -e lo_w hello.c hello_world >actual &&
> 	808:    git grep --break --heading -n --color \
> 

Nice! I really missed that.

You can also add --perl-regexp (since 1.7.6-rc0) to alias.ack to achive more
compability with ack (although it uses Perl regexes, not PCRE).