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From: "Guillaume Jacob via GitGitGadget" <gitgitgadget@gmail.com>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Guillaume Jacob <guillaume@absolut-sensing.com>,
	Guillaume Jacob <guillaume@absolut-sensing.com>
Subject: [PATCH] doc: fix git grep args order in Quick Reference
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2026 14:15:36 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <pull.2069.git.1773670536808.gitgitgadget@gmail.com> (raw)

From: Guillaume Jacob <guillaume@absolut-sensing.com>

The example provided has its arguments in the wrong order. The revision
should follow the pattern, and not the other way around.

Signed-off-by: Guillaume Jacob <guillaume@absolut-sensing.com>
---
    doc: fix git grep args order in Quick Reference

Published-As: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/releases/tag/pr-2069%2Fguillaume-jcb%2Fdoc-fix-args-order-in-quick-ref-v1
Fetch-It-Via: git fetch https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git pr-2069/guillaume-jcb/doc-fix-args-order-in-quick-ref-v1
Pull-Request: https://github.com/gitgitgadget/git/pull/2069

 Documentation/user-manual.adoc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
index 7696987117..64009baf37 100644
--- a/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
+++ b/Documentation/user-manual.adoc
@@ -4466,7 +4466,7 @@ $ git show		    # most recent commit
 $ git diff v2.6.15..v2.6.16 # diff between two tagged versions
 $ git diff v2.6.15..HEAD    # diff with current head
 $ git grep "foo()"	    # search working directory for "foo()"
-$ git grep v2.6.15 "foo()"  # search old tree for "foo()"
+$ git grep "foo()" v2.6.15  # search old tree for "foo()"
 $ git show v2.6.15:a.txt    # look at old version of a.txt
 -----------------------------------------------
 

base-commit: dc6ecd5354dca88d51b6d6562777fc8fc10d77e1
-- 
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             reply	other threads:[~2026-03-16 14:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-03-16 14:15 Guillaume Jacob via GitGitGadget [this message]
2026-03-16 17:16 ` [PATCH] doc: fix git grep args order in Quick Reference Junio C Hamano

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