Teach git-grep --name-only as synonym for -l
authorShawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:28:07 +0000 (23:28 -0500)
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Thu, 21 Feb 2008 04:36:20 +0000 (20:36 -0800)
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@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Documentation/git-grep.txt
builtin-grep.c

index f3cb24f252e2091d4d2f346b61ce87088fa7b02e..71a73354f8cfa960f641d9563ee8af405b4f881f 100644 (file)
@@ -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
index 9180b39e3f22e5d3805649c655c61aafc7861968..f4f4ecb11b587c74a009c94cb7b230e7c93590e4 100644 (file)
@@ -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;