Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >> $ git grep -v second >> $ git grep --not -e second >> >> may hit all lines in this message (except for the obvious two >> lines), but we cannot say which column we found a hit. I am >> wondering if it is too grave a sin to report "the whole line is what >> satisfied the criteria given" and say the match lies at column #1. > > I think that is sensible. I previously was opposed to this because I > thought that it would be too difficult to script around the 'sometimes > we have columns but other times not' and 'I gave --column' but have to > check whether or not they are really there. I am not sure if you really got what I meant. I am suggesting that "git grep -v --column second" should report that the entire line has hit for each and every line that does not have "second" on it, which is a good answer and eliminate "sometimes there is column answer (or answer to -o query) and sometimes not" at the same time. > In other terms: > > * not giving '--column' will _never_ give a column, > * '--column --invert' will _always_ die(), and > * '--column --[and | or | not]' will _never_ give a column. So this is completely opposite from what I would have expected. to somebody who said "I think that is sensible." over there.
