Clarification: the following description only talks about "git grep -h" without any other options and arguments. Such a change cannot be breaking backward compatibility. "grep -h" cannot be asking for suppressing filenames, as there is no match pattern specified. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin-grep.c | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-grep.c b/builtin-grep.c index 1df25b0..01be9bf 100644 --- a/builtin-grep.c +++ b/builtin-grep.c @@ -788,6 +788,13 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) OPT_END() }; + /* + * 'git grep -h', unlike 'git grep -h <pattern>', is a request + * to show usage information and exit. + */ + if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h")) + usage_with_options(grep_usage, options); + memset(&opt, 0, sizeof(opt)); opt.prefix = prefix; opt.prefix_length = (prefix && *prefix) ? strlen(prefix) : 0; -- 1.6.5.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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