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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC 0/4] grep: support to match by line number
Date: Mon, 2 May 2011 13:54:37 +0200
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Heya,

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 13:39, Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com> wrote:
> This series will teach git grep to match at specified line numbers. This is
> particular usefull, if you want to see the lines which emits warnings or errors
> from a build run (where you only get the line number) and present it nicely to
> the user with function and context lines.

Can you give a concrete example of how you'd use this? I'm not sure I
understand the described use case.

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Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier