[PATCH] correct documentation for git grep
From: Matthias Lederhofer <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:31
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <redacted> ---
... and by the far the most common use is to pass more than one pattern. Also, the usage is "[-e] <pattern> [-e <pattern>...]".
Ok, so I changed the patch :) Documentation/git-grep.txt | 8 +++++++- 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 7b810df..3dd1bdd 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ SYNOPSIS [-n] [-l | --files-with-matches] [-L | --files-without-match] [-c | --count] [-A <post-context>] [-B <pre-context>] [-C <context>] - [-f <file>] [-e <pattern>] + [-f <file>] [-e] <pattern> [-e <pattern> [..]] [<tree>...] [--] [<path>...]
@@ -71,6 +71,12 @@ OPTIONS -f <file>:: Read patterns from <file>, one per line. +-e:: + The next parameter is a pattern. This option has to be + used for patterns starting with - and should be used in + scripts passing user input to grep. You can specify multiple + patterns which will be combined by or. + `<tree>...`:: Search blobs in the trees for specified patterns.
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1.4.1.rc1.g72a4-dirty