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@@ -95,13 +95,6 @@ OPTIONS
<tree> option the prefix of all submodule output will be the name of
the parent project's <tree> object.
---parent-basename <basename>::
- For internal use only. In order to produce uniform output with the
- --recurse-submodules option, this option can be used to provide the
- basename of a parent's <tree> object to a submodule so the submodule
- can prefix its output with the parent's name rather than the SHA1 of
- the submodule.
-
-a::
--text::
Process binary files as if they were text.
@@ -161,8 +154,11 @@ OPTIONS
-P::
--perl-regexp::
- Use Perl-compatible regexp for patterns. Requires libpcre to be
- compiled in.
+ Use Perl-compatible regular expressions for patterns.
++
+Support for these types of regular expressions is an optional
+compile-time dependency. If Git wasn't compiled with support for them
+providing this option will cause it to die.
-F::
--fixed-strings::
@@ -293,6 +289,9 @@ OPTIONS
<pathspec>...::
If given, limit the search to paths matching at least one pattern.
Both leading paths match and glob(7) patterns are supported.
++
+For more details about the <pathspec> syntax, see the 'pathspec' entry
+in linkgit:gitglossary[7].
Examples
--------
@@ -309,6 +308,9 @@ Examples
Looks for a line that has `NODE` or `Unexpected` in
files that have lines that match both.
+`git grep solution -- :^Documentation`::
+ Looks for `solution`, excluding files in `Documentation`.
+
GIT
---
Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite