From 526a858a99ace6698823740374edc3e35b87901a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Ren=C3=A9=20Scharfe?= Date: Sun, 20 May 2012 16:33:07 +0200 Subject: grep: support newline separated pattern list Currently, patterns that contain newline characters don't match anything when given to git grep. Regular grep(1) interprets patterns as lists of newline separated search strings instead. Implement this functionality by creating and inserting extra grep_pat structures for patterns consisting of multiple lines when appending to the pattern lists. For simplicity, all pattern strings are duplicated. The original pattern is truncated in place to make it contain only the first line. Requested-by: Torne (Richard Coles) Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano --- Documentation/git-grep.txt | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index e150c77cf..c3306f3a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION ----------- Look for specified patterns in the tracked files in the work tree, blobs -registered in the index file, or blobs in given tree objects. +registered in the index file, or blobs in given tree objects. Patterns +are lists of one or more search expressions separated by newline +characters. An empty string as search expression matches all lines. CONFIGURATION -- cgit v1.2.1