Taylor Blau <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > I think that this might be clear enough on its own, especially since > this is the same as BSD grep on my machine. I think that part_s_ of a > line indicates that behavior, but perhaps not. On GNU grep, this is: > > Print only the matched (non-empty) parts of a matching line, with each > such part on a separate output line. Interesting. I wonder what "git grep -o '^'" would do ;-) > I'm happy to pick either and re-send this patch (2/2) again, if it > wouldn't be too much to juggle. Otherwise, I can re-roll to v4. Please do not re-send a different version of a patch with the same v$n value. Either re-send, otherwise re-roll, will give us v4, not v3. In any case, I find that the GNU phrasing is the most clear among the ones I've seen in this thread so far.