I expected git grep --name-only to give me only the file names, much as git diff --name-only only generates filenames. Alas the option is -l, which matches common external greps but doesn't match other parts of the git UI. Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@xxxxxxxxxxx> --- This time with documentation! Documentation/git-grep.txt | 4 +++- builtin-grep.c | 1 + 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index f3cb24f..71a7335 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -75,9 +75,11 @@ OPTIONS -n:: Prefix the line number to matching lines. --l | --files-with-matches | -L | --files-without-match:: +-l | --files-with-matches | --name-only | -L | --files-without-match:: Instead of showing every matched line, show only the names of files that contain (or do not contain) matches. + For better compatability with git-diff, --name-only is a + synonym for --files-with-matches. -c | --count:: Instead of showing every matched line, show the number of diff --git a/builtin-grep.c b/builtin-grep.c index 9180b39..f4f4ecb 100644 --- a/builtin-grep.c +++ b/builtin-grep.c @@ -578,6 +578,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) continue; } if (!strcmp("-l", arg) || + !strcmp("--name-only", arg) || !strcmp("--files-with-matches", arg)) { opt.name_only = 1; continue; -- 1.5.4.2.232.g08e5 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html