* [PATCH v2] Teach git-grep --name-only as synonym for -l
@ 2008-02-21 4:28 Shawn O. Pearce
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From: Shawn O. Pearce @ 2008-02-21 4:28 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Junio C Hamano; +Cc: git
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>
---
This time with documentation!
Documentation/git-grep.txt | 4 +++-
builtin-grep.c | 1 +
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index f3cb24f..71a7335 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -75,9 +75,11 @@ OPTIONS
-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 compatability with git-diff, --name-only is a
+ synonym for --files-with-matches.
-c | --count::
Instead of showing every matched line, show the number of
diff --git a/builtin-grep.c b/builtin-grep.c
index 9180b39..f4f4ecb 100644
--- a/builtin-grep.c
+++ b/builtin-grep.c
@@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
continue;
}
if (!strcmp("-l", arg) ||
+ !strcmp("--name-only", arg) ||
!strcmp("--files-with-matches", arg)) {
opt.name_only = 1;
continue;
--
1.5.4.2.232.g08e5
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