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Woody Gilk <woody.gilk@gmail.com> writes:

> git diff --name-only
> git grep --files-with-matches
>
> I think --files-with-matches should be deprecated and replaced with
> --name-only for consistency.

That longer name comes from "GNU grep" consistency.

Why anybody does not use a shorter and sweeter "grep -l" is beyond
me, though ;-)