Clarification: the following description only talks about "git
grep -h" without any other options and arguments.
Such a change cannot be breaking backward compatibility. "grep
-h" cannot be asking for suppressing filenames, as there is no
match pattern specified.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
OPT_END()
};
+ /*
+ * 'git grep -h', unlike 'git grep -h <pattern>', is a request
+ * to show usage information and exit.
+ */
+ if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-h"))
+ usage_with_options(grep_usage, options);
+
memset(&opt, 0, sizeof(opt));
opt.prefix = prefix;
opt.prefix_length = (prefix && *prefix) ? strlen(prefix) : 0;