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diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 0140c8e358..b753c9d76f 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -9,15 +9,18 @@ git-grep - Print lines matching a pattern SYNOPSIS -------- [verse] -'git-grep' [--cached] +'git grep' [--cached] [-a | --text] [-I] [-i | --ignore-case] [-w | --word-regexp] [-v | --invert-match] [-h|-H] [--full-name] - [-E | --extended-regexp] [-G | --basic-regexp] [-F | --fixed-strings] - [-n] [-l | --files-with-matches] [-L | --files-without-match] + [-E | --extended-regexp] [-G | --basic-regexp] + [-F | --fixed-strings] [-n] + [-l | --files-with-matches] [-L | --files-without-match] + [-z | --null] [-c | --count] [--all-match] + [--color | --no-color] [-A <post-context>] [-B <pre-context>] [-C <context>] - [-f <file>] [-e] <pattern> [--and|--or|--not|(|)|-e <pattern>...] - [<tree>...] + [-f <file>] [-e] <pattern> + [--and|--or|--not|(|)|-e <pattern>...] [<tree>...] [--] [<path>...] DESCRIPTION @@ -32,22 +35,30 @@ OPTIONS Instead of searching in the working tree files, check the blobs registered in the index file. --a | --text:: +-a:: +--text:: Process binary files as if they were text. --i | --ignore-case:: +-i:: +--ignore-case:: Ignore case differences between the patterns and the files. --w | --word-regexp:: +-I:: + Don't match the pattern in binary files. + +-w:: +--word-regexp:: Match the pattern only at word boundary (either begin at the beginning of a line, or preceded by a non-word character; end at the end of a line or followed by a non-word character). --v | --invert-match:: +-v:: +--invert-match:: Select non-matching lines. --h | -H:: +-h:: +-H:: By default, the command shows the filename for each match. `-h` option is used to suppress this output. `-H` is there for completeness and does not do anything @@ -60,27 +71,65 @@ OPTIONS option forces paths to be output relative to the project top directory. --E | --extended-regexp | -G | --basic-regexp:: +-E:: +--extended-regexp:: +-G:: +--basic-regexp:: Use POSIX extended/basic regexp for patterns. Default is to use basic regexp. +-F:: +--fixed-strings:: + Use fixed strings for patterns (don't interpret pattern + as a regex). + -n:: Prefix the line number to matching lines. --l | --files-with-matches | -L | --files-without-match:: +-l:: +--files-with-matches:: +--name-only:: +-L:: +--files-without-match:: Instead of showing every matched line, show only the names of files that contain (or do not contain) matches. + For better compatibility with 'git-diff', --name-only is a + synonym for --files-with-matches. --c | --count:: +-z:: +--null:: + Output \0 instead of the character that normally follows a + file name. + +-c:: +--count:: Instead of showing every matched line, show the number of lines that match. +--color:: + Show colored matches. + +--no-color:: + Turn off match highlighting, even when the configuration file + gives the default to color output. + -[ABC] <context>:: Show `context` trailing (`A` -- after), or leading (`B` -- before), or both (`C` -- context) lines, and place a line containing `--` between contiguous groups of matches. +-<num>:: + A shortcut for specifying -C<num>. + +-p:: +--show-function:: + Show the preceding line that contains the function name of + the match, unless the matching line is a function name itself. + The name is determined in the same way as 'git diff' works out + patch hunk headers (see 'Defining a custom hunk-header' in + linkgit:gitattributes[5]). + -f <file>:: Read patterns from <file>, one per line. @@ -90,7 +139,10 @@ OPTIONS scripts passing user input to grep. Multiple patterns are combined by 'or'. ---and | --or | --not | ( | ):: +--and:: +--or:: +--not:: +( ... ):: Specify how multiple patterns are combined using Boolean expressions. `--or` is the default operator. `--and` has higher precedence than `--or`. `-e` has to be used for all @@ -132,5 +184,4 @@ Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>. GIT --- -Part of the gitlink:git[7] suite - +Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |