Suppose you want to edit all files that contain a specific search term.
Of course, you can do something totally trivial such as
git grep -z -e <term> | xargs -0r vi +/<term>
but maybe you are happy that the same will be achieved by
git grep -Ovi <term>
now.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@xxxxxx>
---
Documentation/git-grep.txt | 6 +++---
builtin-grep.c | 21 ++++++++++++---------
2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index ab3bb77..1b7e32d 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[-E | --extended-regexp] [-G | --basic-regexp]
[-F | --fixed-strings] [-n]
[-l | --files-with-matches] [-L | --files-without-match]
- [-O | --open-files-in-pager]
+ [(-O | --open-files-in-pager) [<pager>]]
[-z | --null]
[-c | --count] [--all-match] [-q | --quiet]
[--max-depth <depth>]
@@ -102,8 +102,8 @@ OPTIONS
For better compatibility with 'git diff', --name-only is a
synonym for --files-with-matches.
--O::
---open-files-in-pager::
+-O [<pager>]::
+--open-files-in-pager [<pager>]::
Open the matching files in the pager (not the output of 'grep').
If the pager happens to be "less" or "vi", and the user
specified only one pattern, the first file is positioned at
diff --git a/builtin-grep.c b/builtin-grep.c
index 233c772..a23f0dc 100644
--- a/builtin-grep.c
+++ b/builtin-grep.c
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
int cached = 0;
int seen_dashdash = 0;
int external_grep_allowed__ignored;
- int show_in_pager = 0;
+ const char *show_in_pager = NULL, *default_pager = "dummy";
struct grep_opt opt;
struct object_array list = { 0, 0, NULL };
const char **paths = NULL;
@@ -838,8 +838,9 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "all-match", &opt.all_match,
"show only matches from files that match all patterns"),
OPT_GROUP(""),
- OPT_BOOLEAN('O', "open-files-in-pager", &show_in_pager,
- "show matching files in the pager"),
+ { OPTION_STRING, 'O', "open-files-in-pager", &show_in_pager,
+ "pager", "show matching files in the pager",
+ PARSE_OPT_OPTARG, NULL, (intptr_t)default_pager },
OPT_BOOLEAN(0, "ext-grep", &external_grep_allowed__ignored,
"allow calling of grep(1) (ignored by this build)"),
{ OPTION_CALLBACK, 0, "help-all", &options, NULL, "show usage",
@@ -893,16 +894,18 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
}
if (show_in_pager) {
- const char *pager = getenv("GIT_PAGER");
- if (!pager)
- pager = getenv("PAGER");
- if (!pager)
- pager = "less";
+ if (show_in_pager == default_pager) {
+ show_in_pager = getenv("GIT_PAGER");
+ if (!show_in_pager)
+ show_in_pager = getenv("PAGER");
+ if (!show_in_pager)
+ show_in_pager = "less";
+ }
opt.name_only = 1;
opt.null_following_name = 1;
opt.output_priv = &path_list;
opt.output = append_path;
- string_list_append(pager, &path_list);
+ string_list_append(show_in_pager, &path_list);
use_threads = 0;
}
--
1.6.4.313.g3d9e3
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