Am 21.04.2018 um 06:14 schrieb Junio C Hamano: > 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. https://beyondgrep.com/feature-comparison/ is a good resource for such considerations. ack and ripgrep use --column and no short option. If git grep got --column-number, then users could abbreviate it to --column (until it gets some other option that makes it ambiguous). -m seems to be used for --max-count across the board ("Stop searching in each file after NUM matches") . René
