This --recursive (-r) option does nothing, and is purely here to
appease people who have "grep -r ..." burned into their muscle memory.
Requested-by: Christoph Berg <myon@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@xxxxxxxxx>
---
On Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 4:10 PM Christoph Berg <myon@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> I often use "grep -r $pattern" to recursively grep a source tree. If
> that takes too long, I hit ^C and tag "git" in front of the command
> line and re-run it. git then complains "error: unknown switch `r'"
> because "git grep" is naturally recursive.
>
> Could we have "git grep -r" accept the argument for compatibility?
> Other important grep switches like "-i" are compatible, adding -r
> would improve usability.
I don't have an opinion on this either way, it doesn't scratch my
itch, but hey, why not. Here's a patch to implement it.
Documentation/git-grep.txt | 6 ++++++
builtin/grep.c | 3 +++
t/t7810-grep.sh | 8 ++++++++
3 files changed, 17 insertions(+)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index a3049af1a3..a1aea8be4e 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -290,6 +290,12 @@ providing this option will cause it to die.
Do not output matched lines; instead, exit with status 0 when
there is a match and with non-zero status when there isn't.
+-r::
+--recursive::
+ This option does nothing. git-grep is always recursive. This
+ noop option is provided for compatibility with the muscle
+ memory of people used to grep(1).
+
<tree>...::
Instead of searching tracked files in the working tree, search
blobs in the given trees.
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 601f801158..02d4384225 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -785,6 +785,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
int use_index = 1;
int pattern_type_arg = GREP_PATTERN_TYPE_UNSPECIFIED;
int allow_revs;
+ int unused_recursive; /* this is never used */
struct option options[] = {
OPT_BOOL(0, "cached", &cached,
@@ -802,6 +803,8 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix)
N_("show non-matching lines")),
OPT_BOOL('i', "ignore-case", &opt.ignore_case,
N_("case insensitive matching")),
+ OPT_BOOL('r', "recursive", &unused_recursive,
+ N_("does nothing, git-grep is always recursive, for grep(1) muscle memory compatibility")),
OPT_BOOL('w', "word-regexp", &opt.word_regexp,
N_("match patterns only at word boundaries")),
OPT_SET_INT('a', "text", &opt.binary,
diff --git a/t/t7810-grep.sh b/t/t7810-grep.sh
index be5c1bd553..c48d1fa34b 100755
--- a/t/t7810-grep.sh
+++ b/t/t7810-grep.sh
@@ -469,6 +469,14 @@ do
git grep --count -h -e b $H -- ab >actual &&
test_cmp expected actual
'
+
+ for flag in '' ' -r' ' --recursive'
+ do
+ test_expect_success "grep $flag . (testing that --recursive is a noop)" '
+ git grep$flag . >actual &&
+ test_line_count = 43 actual
+ '
+ done
done
cat >expected <<EOF
--
2.19.0.605.g01d371f741
