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DESCRIPTION
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Look for specified patterns in the tracked files in the work tree, blobs
-registered in the index file, or blobs in given tree objects.
+registered in the index file, or blobs in given tree objects. Patterns
+are lists of one or more search expressions separated by newline
+characters. An empty string as search expression matches all lines.
CONFIGURATION