Thread (12 messages) flat view 12 messages, 5 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: Fix "git log -z" behaviour

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:42:53


On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Don Zickus wrote:
And I thought I had a handle on a lot of the Unix commands.  That -z
stuff just threw me for a loop.  It's pretty neat to be able to grep
commits and have the output display the whole commit and diff.
The whole "-z" flag to grep is a GNU extension, as far as I know. I don't 
think it's portable. 

Even for GNU grep, it's not mentioned in the man-page. Whether that is 
just due to the normal inane FSF rules ("man-pages are evil, you should 
use those idiotic info pages") or whether it is a conscious effort to not 
document nonstandard features, I don't know.

		Linus
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