Re: [PATCH] git-grep: add --color to highlight matches

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Hi,

On Mon, 26 May 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:

> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 6:00 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 26 May 2008, Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy wrote:
> >
> >> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:16 PM, Johannes Schindelin
> >> <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >> > Besides, it would be a kludge at best to work _twice_ to find out 
> >> > the search terms, once in the external grep, and a second time in 
> >> > the coloring code.  So I think it should not be done.
> >>
> >> I think if it's GNU grep, just passing it --color, it will grep and 
> >> colorize search terms in one turn.
> >
> > And what tells you that the called grep is GNU grep?
> 
> A newly added macro like HAS_GNU_GREP? Granted it won't work all the
> time. The user who set the macro should know what he is doing. This
> approach is IMHO fine as long as we don't allow color customization.

IMO this is just a kludge that is not even necessary, because the whole 
notion of relying on an external grep's colorization is crap.

The OP has a patch that adds colorization to Git's internal grep code.  
The user specifies "--color" with grep?  Fine, then it's no external grep.  
Full stop.

Just like the original patch implements it.  Nice, simple, and easy.  What 
is so wrong with that?

Ciao,
Dscho

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