Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> This commit teaches 'git-grep(1)' a new option, '--column-number'. This >> ... >> +`columnnumber`;; >> + column number prefix (when using `-m`) > > Is there other people's tool (preferrably some variant of "grep") > that has an option to tell it to show the column number of the hit? > What is the option called there? Does that tool let the option > squat on short-and-sweet '-m'? > > Thanks. I still do not know if we have a good existing model system to take the longer optoin name from, but at least, GNU grep seems to use -m to mean a completely different thing, so I'd think that we would not assign '-m' to this new feature.
