Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > Although there are interesting cases around inversion. For example: > > git grep --not \( --not -e a --and --not -e b \) > > is equivalent to: > > git grep -e a --or -e b > > Do people care if we actually hunt down the exact column where we > _didn't_ match "b" in the first case? The two are equivalent, but I > have to wonder if somebody writing the first one really cares. I may be misunderstanding the question, but I personally would feel that "git grep --not <ANYTHING>" is OK to say "the entire line is at fault that it did not satisify the criteria to match <ANYTHING>". I.e., I'd be happy if --column marked the first column as the beginning of the match, or --color painted the entire line in the output of the former.
