From: Noel Grandin <noelgrandin@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Noel Grandin <noelgrandin@gmail.com>
Cc: "git@vger.kernel.org" <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bug: git grep -P and multiline mode
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 09:34:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53A92A14.8010607@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <xmqqa993cykl.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com>
On 2014-06-23 07:42 PM, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> Noel Grandin <noelgrandin@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> It looks like the perl regular expression multiline mode does not work with 'git grep'
> Yes, and deliberately so, to avoid having to think about things like
> "how would a multi-line match interact with 'grep -n'?"
>
>
Ah, that is a pity.
I find the multi-line mode very useful for finding code problems that span multiple lines.
I'm sure there are other options that conflict, and the solution is to normally write out some kind of informative error
message?
Anyhow, since I'm too busy working on LibreOffice right now to work up a patch for git, I'll stick to using
find | xargs grep
:-)
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2014-06-23 6:54 bug: git grep -P and multiline mode Noel Grandin
2014-06-23 17:42 ` Junio C Hamano
2014-06-24 7:34 ` Noel Grandin [this message]
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