[PATCH v2] Teach git-grep --name-only as synonym for -l
From: Shawn O. Pearce <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:44:15
Subsystem:
documentation, the rest · Maintainers:
Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds
I expected git grep --name-only to give me only the file names, much as git diff --name-only only generates filenames. Alas the option is -l, which matches common external greps but doesn't match other parts of the git UI. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <redacted> --- This time with documentation! Documentation/git-grep.txt | 4 +++- builtin-grep.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index f3cb24f..71a7335 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt@@ -75,9 +75,11 @@ OPTIONS -n:: Prefix the line number to matching lines. --l | --files-with-matches | -L | --files-without-match:: +-l | --files-with-matches | --name-only | -L | --files-without-match:: Instead of showing every matched line, show only the names of files that contain (or do not contain) matches. + For better compatability with git-diff, --name-only is a + synonym for --files-with-matches. -c | --count:: Instead of showing every matched line, show the number of
diff --git a/builtin-grep.c b/builtin-grep.c
index 9180b39..f4f4ecb 100644
--- a/builtin-grep.c
+++ b/builtin-grep.c@@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) continue; } if (!strcmp("-l", arg) || + !strcmp("--name-only", arg) || !strcmp("--files-with-matches", arg)) { opt.name_only = 1; continue;
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