On Tue, 2 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > - The shell-script one, if you use GNU grep, accepts more > options to grep than what the current built-in one supports. > Notable ones that are missing: fixed strings (-F), patterns > from file (-f), count matches (-c), omit filenames (-h), > skipping binary files (-I, -U), files without match (-L), > pcre (-P), silent (-q), word expression (-w), NUL (-z). They > should be easy to add if somebody cares enough, and I plan to > do a few myself before pushing it out to "master". I use "-w" all the time, along with -5 or similar to get context for the grep. Linus - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html