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From: Phillip Wood <phillip.wood123@gmail.com>
To: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: How to restrict command “git grep” to the first search result per file?
Date: Sun, 6 Jul 2025 14:27:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83b8fd7c-622a-4041-a825-89fe743b6c97@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fb74577d-f7b8-4fde-ab5a-5283e70b8258@web.de>

Hi Markus

On 06/07/2025 12:28, Markus Elfring wrote:
> File contents can be searched also by the means of the program call “git grep”.
> Would you become interested to find specified items only once in each file
> (instead of multiple times)?

Looking at the man page for git grep there is a --max-count option which 
will limit the number of matches per file.

Thanks

Phillip

      parent reply	other threads:[~2025-07-06 13:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-07-06 11:28 How to restrict command “git grep” to the first search result per file? Markus Elfring
2025-07-06 11:42 ` Andreas Schwab
2025-07-06 12:20   ` Markus Elfring
2025-07-08  5:30   ` Markus Elfring
2025-07-06 13:27 ` Phillip Wood [this message]

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