The current help string is about --no-exclude-standard. But "git grep -h" would show --exclude-standard instead. Flip the string. See 0a93fb8 (grep: teach --untracked and --exclude-standard options - 2011-09-27) for more info about these options. Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/grep.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c index 4063882..e77f7cf 100644 --- a/builtin/grep.c +++ b/builtin/grep.c @@ -641,7 +641,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) OPT_BOOL(0, "untracked", &untracked, N_("search in both tracked and untracked files")), OPT_SET_INT(0, "exclude-standard", &opt_exclude, - N_("search also in ignored files"), 1), + N_("ignore files specified via '.gitignore'"), 1), OPT_GROUP(""), OPT_BOOL('v', "invert-match", &opt.invert, N_("show non-matching lines")), -- 2.3.0.rc1.137.g477eb31 -- 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