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2011-05-09git-grep: Learn PCRELibravatar Michał Kiedrowicz1-0/+6
This patch teaches git-grep the --perl-regexp/-P options (naming borrowed from GNU grep) in order to allow specifying PCRE regexes on the command line. PCRE has a number of features which make them more handy to use than POSIX regexes, like consistent escaping rules, extended character classes, ungreedy matching etc. git isn't build with PCRE support automatically. USE_LIBPCRE environment variable must be enabled (like `make USE_LIBPCRE=YesPlease`). Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-05-05Documentation: Add --line-number to git-grep synopsisLibravatar Michał Kiedrowicz1-1/+1
Commit 7d6cb10b ("grep: Add the option '--line-number'", 2011-03-28) introduced the --line-number option and added its description to OPTIONS section, but forgot to update SYNOPSIS. Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-30grep: allow -E and -n to be turned on by default via configurationLibravatar Joe Ratterman1-0/+10
Add two configration variables grep.extendedRegexp and grep.lineNumbers to allow the user to skip typing -E and -n on the command line, respectively. Scripts that are meant to be used by random users and/or in random repositories now have use -G and/or --no-line-number options as appropriately to override the settings in the repository or user's ~/.gitconfig settings. Just because the script didn't say "git grep -n" no longer guarantees that the output from the command will not have line numbers. Signed-off-by: Joe Ratterman <jratt0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-28Merge branch 'maint'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+1
* maint: git tag documentation grammar fixes and readability updates grep: Add the option '--line-number'
2011-03-28grep: Add the option '--line-number'Libravatar Joe Ratterman1-0/+1
This is a synonym for the existing '-n' option, matching GNU grep. Signed-off-by: Joe Ratterman <jratt0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-03-11doc: drop author/documentation sections from most pagesLibravatar Jeff King1-10/+0
The point of these sections is generally to: 1. Give credit where it is due. 2. Give the reader an idea of where to ask questions or file bug reports. But they don't do a good job of either case. For (1), they are out of date and incomplete. A much more accurate answer can be gotten through shortlog or blame. For (2), the correct contact point is generally git@vger, and even if you wanted to cc the contact point, the out-of-date and incomplete fields mean you're likely sending to somebody useless. So let's drop the fields entirely from all manpages except git(1) itself. We already point people to the mailing list for bug reports there, and we can update the Authors section to give credit to the major contributors and point to shortlog and blame for more information. Each page has a "This is part of git" footer, so people can follow that to the main git manpage.
2010-08-20Documentation: add missing quotes to "git grep" examplesLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-2/+2
Without an indication to the contrary, Asciidoc puts 'quoted text' in italics, making the output look like this: git grep time_t -- *.[ch] Looks for time_t in all tracked .c and .h files in the working directory and its subdirectories. git grep -e '#define\' --and \( -e MAX_PATH -e PATH_MAX \) Looks for a line that has #define and either MAX_PATH or PATH_MAX. In the first example, the *.[ch] argument needs to be protected from the shell, or else it will only match files in the current directory. The second example has a stray backslash. Reported-by: Frédéric Brière <fbriere@fbriere.net> Cc: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-30Merge branch 'jn/grep-open'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-0/+8
* jn/grep-open: t/t7811-grep-open.sh: remove broken/redundant creation of fake "less" script t/t7811-grep-open.sh: ensure fake "less" is made executable t/lib-pager.sh: remove unnecessary '^' from 'expr' regular expression grep -O: allow optional argument specifying the pager (or editor) grep: Add the option '--open-files-in-pager' Unify code paths of threaded greps grep: refactor grep_objects loop into its own function Conflicts: t/t7006-pager.sh
2010-06-25Documentation: grep: fix asciidoc problem with --Libravatar Christian Couder1-1/+1
Asciidoc interprets two dashes separated by spaces as a single big dash. So let's escape the first dash, so that "\--" will properly appear as "--". Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-13grep -O: allow optional argument specifying the pager (or editor)Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-3/+3
Suppose you want to edit all files that contain a specific search term. Of course, you can do something totally trivial such as git grep -z -e <term> | xargs -0r vi +/<term> but maybe you are happy that the same will be achieved by git grep -Ovi <term> now. [jn: rebased and added tests] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-06-13grep: Add the option '--open-files-in-pager'Libravatar Johannes Schindelin1-0/+8
This adds an option to open the matching files in the pager, and if the pager happens to be "less" (or "vi") and there is only one grep pattern, it also jumps to the first match right away. The short option was chose as '-O' to avoid clashes with GNU grep's options (as suggested by Junio). So, 'git grep -O abc' is a short form for 'less +/abc $(grep -l abc)' except that it works also with spaces in file names, and it does not start the pager if there was no matching file. [jn: rebased and added tests; with error handling fix from Junio squashed in] Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-03-07Merge branch 'ml/maint-grep-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-13/+17
* ml/maint-grep-doc: grep docs: document --no-index option grep docs: --cached and <tree>... are incompatible grep docs: use AsciiDoc literals consistently grep docs: pluralize "Example" section
2010-03-02Merge branch 'ml/color-when'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-2/+4
* ml/color-when: Add an optional argument for --color options
2010-02-25grep docs: document --no-index optionLibravatar Mark Lodato1-4/+8
Also clarify --cached and <tree>. Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-25grep docs: --cached and <tree>... are incompatibleLibravatar Mark Lodato1-3/+3
In the synopsis for git-grep(1), show that --cached and <tree>... cannot be used together. Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-25grep docs: use AsciiDoc literals consistentlyLibravatar Mark Lodato1-5/+5
The convention for this particular page is to use AsciiDoc literal strings only for options (`-x` or `--long`), but not for definition list terms and not for <meta-vars>. Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-25grep docs: pluralize "Example" sectionLibravatar Mark Lodato1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-24Merge branch 'ml/maint-grep-doc' into maintLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+12
* ml/maint-grep-doc: grep documentation: clarify what files match
2010-02-21Merge branch 'ml/maint-grep-doc'Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-5/+12
* ml/maint-grep-doc: grep documentation: clarify what files match
2010-02-18Add an optional argument for --color optionsLibravatar Mark Lodato1-2/+4
Make git-branch, git-show-branch, git-grep, and all the diff-based programs accept an optional argument <when> for --color. The argument is a colorbool: "always", "never", or "auto". If no argument is given, "always" is used; --no-color is an alias for --color=never. This makes the command-line interface consistent with other GNU tools, such as `ls' and `grep', and with the git-config color options. Note that, without an argument, --color and --no-color work exactly as before. To implement this, two internal changes were made: 1. Allow the first argument of git_config_colorbool() to be NULL, in which case it returns -1 if the argument isn't "always", "never", or "auto". 2. Add OPT_COLOR_FLAG(), OPT__COLOR(), and parse_opt_color_flag_cb() to the option parsing library. The callback uses git_config_colorbool(), so color.h is now a dependency of parse-options.c. Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-02-16grep documentation: clarify what files matchLibravatar Mark Lodato1-5/+12
Clarify that git-grep(1) searches only tracked files, and that each <pathspec> is a pathspec, as in any other ordinary git commands. Add an example to show a simple use case for searching all .c and .h files in the current directory and below. Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-28grep --quiet: finishing touchesLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+6
Name the option "--quiet" not "--quick", document it, and add tests. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2010-01-10Documentation: spell 'git cmd' without dash throughoutLibravatar Thomas Rast1-1/+1
The documentation was quite inconsistent when spelling 'git cmd' if it only refers to the program, not to some specific invocation syntax: both 'git-cmd' and 'git cmd' spellings exist. The current trend goes towards dashless forms, and there is precedent in 647ac70 (git-svn.txt: stop using dash-form of commands., 2009-07-07) to actively eliminate the dashed variants. Replace 'git-cmd' with 'git cmd' throughout, except where git-shell, git-cvsserver, git-upload-pack, git-receive-pack, and git-upload-archive are concerned, because those really live in the $PATH.
2009-07-22grep: Add --max-depth option.Libravatar Michał Kiedrowicz1-0/+5
It is useful to grep directories non-recursively, e.g. when one wants to look for all files in the toplevel directory, but not in any subdirectory, or in Documentation/, but not in Documentation/technical/. This patch adds support for --max-depth <depth> option to git-grep. If it is given, git-grep descends at most <depth> levels of directories below paths specified on the command line. Note that if path specified on command line contains wildcards, this option makes no sense, e.g. $ git grep -l --max-depth 0 GNU -- 'contrib/*' (note the quotes) will search all files in contrib/, even in subdirectories, because '*' matches all files. Documentation updates, bash-completion and simple test cases are also provided. Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-01grep -p: support user defined regular expressionsLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+3
Respect the userdiff attributes and config settings when looking for lines with function definitions in git grep -p. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-01grep: add option -p/--show-functionLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+5
The new option -p instructs git grep to print the previous function definition as a context line, similar to diff -p. Such context lines are marked with an equal sign instead of a dash. This option complements the existing context options -A, -B, -C. Function definitions are detected using the same heuristic that diff uses. User defined regular expressions are not supported, yet. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-03-07grep: color patterns in outputLibravatar René Scharfe1-0/+8
Coloring matches makes them easier to spot in the output. Add two options and two parameters: color.grep (to turn coloring on or off), color.grep.match (to set the color of matches), --color and --no-color (to turn coloring on or off, respectively). The output of external greps is not changed. This patch is based on earlier ones by Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy and Thiago Alves. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-10-01git grep: Add "-z/--null" option as in GNU's grep.Libravatar Raphael Zimmerer1-0/+6
Here's a trivial patch that adds "-z" and "--null" options to "git grep". It was discussed on the mailing-list that git's "-z" convention should be used instead of GNU grep's "-Z". So things like 'git grep -l -z "$FOO" | xargs -0 sed -i "s/$FOO/$BOO/"' do work now. Signed-off-by: Raphael Zimmerer <killekulla@rdrz.de> Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
2008-07-05manpages: italicize git command names (which were in teletype font)Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
The names of git commands are not meant to be entered at the commandline; they are just names. So we render them in italics, as is usual for command names in manpages. Using doit () { perl -e 'for (<>) { s/\`(git-[^\`.]*)\`/'\''\1'\''/g; print }' } for i in git*.txt config.txt diff*.txt blame*.txt fetch*.txt i18n.txt \ merge*.txt pretty*.txt pull*.txt rev*.txt urls*.txt do doit <"$i" >"$i+" && mv "$i+" "$i" done git diff . Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01Documentation formatting and cleanupLibravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
Following what appears to be the predominant style, format names of commands and commandlines both as `teletype text`. While we're at it, add articles ("a" and "the") in some places, italicize the name of the command in the manual page synopsis line, and add a comma or two where it seems appropriate. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-07-01Documentation: be consistent about "git-" versus "git "Libravatar Jonathan Nieder1-1/+1
Since the git-* commands are not installed in $(bindir), using "git-command <parameters>" in examples in the documentation is not a good idea. On the other hand, it is nice to be able to refer to each command using one hyphenated word. (There is no escaping it, anyway: man page names cannot have spaces in them.) This patch retains the dash in naming an operation, command, program, process, or action. Complete command lines that can be entered at a shell (i.e., without options omitted) are made to use the dashless form. The changes consist only of replacing some spaces with hyphens and vice versa. After a "s/ /-/g", the unpatched and patched versions are identical. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-08Docs: Use "-l::\n--long\n" format in OPTIONS sectionsLibravatar Stephan Beyer1-10/+27
The OPTIONS section of a documentation file contains a list of the options a git command accepts. Currently there are several variants to describe the case that different options (almost) do the same in the OPTIONS section. Some are: -f, --foo:: -f|--foo:: -f | --foo:: But AsciiDoc has the special form: -f:: --foo:: This patch applies this form to the documentation of the whole git suite, and removes useless em-dash prevention, so \--foo becomes --foo. Signed-off-by: Stephan Beyer <s-beyer@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-06-06documentation: move git(7) to git(1)Libravatar Christian Couder1-1/+1
As the "git" man page describes the "git" command at the end-user level, it seems better to move it to man section 1. Signed-off-by: Christian Couder <chriscool@tuxfamily.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-03-02Fix doc typos.Libravatar Ralf Wildenhues1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Ralf Wildenhues <Ralf.Wildenhues@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-02-20Teach git-grep --name-only as synonym for -lLibravatar Shawn O. Pearce1-1/+3
I expected git grep --name-only to give me only the file names, much as git diff --name-only only generates filenames. Alas the option is -l, which matches common external greps but doesn't match other parts of the git UI. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2008-01-06Documentation: rename gitlink macro to linkgitLibravatar Dan McGee1-1/+1
Between AsciiDoc 8.2.2 and 8.2.3, the following change was made to the stock Asciidoc configuration: @@ -149,7 +153,10 @@ # Inline macros. # Backslash prefix required for escape processing. # (?s) re flag for line spanning. -(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>\w(\w|-)*?):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + +# Explicit so they can be nested. +(?su)[\\]?(?P<name>(http|https|ftp|file|mailto|callto|image|link)):(?P<target>\S*?)(\[(?P<attrlist>.*?)\])= + # Anchor: [[[id]]]. Bibliographic anchor. (?su)[\\]?\[\[\[(?P<attrlist>[\w][\w-]*?)\]\]\]=anchor3 # Anchor: [[id,xreflabel]] This default regex now matches explicit values, and unfortunately in this case gitlink was being matched by just 'link', causing the wrong inline macro template to be applied. By renaming the macro, we can avoid being matched by the wrong regex. Signed-off-by: Dan McGee <dpmcgee@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-06-07War on whitespaceLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+0
This uses "git-apply --whitespace=strip" to fix whitespace errors that have crept in to our source files over time. There are a few files that need to have trailing whitespaces (most notably, test vectors). The results still passes the test, and build result in Documentation/ area is unchanged. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2007-04-26Update git-grep documentationLibravatar Andrew Ruder1-4/+15
Documentation/git-grep.txt: Document -F/--fixed-strings to search for non-regexp patterns. Document -I to not search binary files. Document -<num> as a shortcut for -C<num>. Signed-off-by: Andrew Ruder <andy@aeruder.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2007-01-17Documentation: a few spelling fixesLibravatar René Scharfe1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-27grep --all-matchLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+10
This lets you say: git grep --all-match -e A -e B -e C to find lines that match A or B or C but limit the matches from the files that have all of A, B and C. This is different from git grep -e A --and -e B --and -e C in that the latter looks for a single line that has all of these at the same time. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-09-15Document git-grep -[Hh]Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+8
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-11git-grep: show pathnames relative to the current directoryLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+7
By default, the command shows pathnames relative to the current directory. Use --full-name (the same flag to do so in ls-files) if you want to see the full pathname relative to the project root. This makes it very pleasant to run in Emacs compilation (or "grep-find") buffer. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-08-02git-grep: document --and, --or, --not, ( and )Libravatar Matthias Lederhofer1-3/+17
[jc: added an example section.] Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-25correct documentation for git grepLibravatar Matthias Lederhofer1-1/+6
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-06-03Documentation: Spelling fixesLibravatar Horst H. von Brand1-2/+2
Signed-off-by: Horst H. von Brand <vonbrand@inf.utfsm.cl> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-09builtin-grep: -F (--fixed-strings)Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-05-08builtin-grep: documentationLibravatar Junio C Hamano1-23/+62
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-22Format tweaks for asciidoc.Libravatar Francis Daly1-7/+7
Some documentation "options" were followed by independent preformatted paragraphs. Now they are associated plain text paragraphs. The difference is clear in the generated html. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-03-09Fix some inconsistencies in the docsLibravatar Fredrik Kuivinen1-1/+1
Signed-off-by: Fredrik Kuivinen <freku045@student.liu.se> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
2006-01-21git-grep: clarification on parameters.Libravatar Junio C Hamano1-4/+15
We forgot to make sure that there is no more than one pattern parameter. Also when looking for files in a directory called '--others', it passed that path limiter without preceding the end-of-options marker '--' to underlying git-ls-files, which misunderstood it as one of its options instead. $ git grep --others -e Meta/Make Meta $ git grep -o -e Meta/Make Meta $ git grep -o Meta/Make Meta look for a string "Meta/Make" from untracked files in Meta/ directory. $ git grep Meta/Make --others looks for the same string from tracked files in ./--others directory. On the other hand, $ git grep -e Meta/Make --others does not have a freestanding pattern, so everybody is parameter and there is no path specifier. It looks for the string in all the untracked files without any path limiter. [jc: updated with usability enhancements and documentation cleanups from Sean.] Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>