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Elijah Newren
384f7d17d2 documentation: fix typos
Diff best viewed with --color-diff.

Signed-off-by: Elijah Newren <newren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2023-10-09 12:06:24 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
a2811dd7c4 grep docs: de-duplicate configuration sections
Include the "config/grep.txt" file in "git-grep.txt", instead of
repeating an almost identical description of the "grep" configuration
variables in two places.

There is no loss of information here that isn't shown in the addition
to "grep.txt". This change was made by copying the contents of
"git-grep.txt"'s version over the "grep.txt" version. Aside from the
change "grep.txt" being made here the two were identical.

This documentation started being copy/pasted around in
b22520a37c (grep: allow -E and -n to be turned on by default via
configuration, 2011-03-30). After that in e.g. 6453f7b348 (grep: add
grep.fullName config variable, 2014-03-17) they started drifting
apart, with only grep.fullName being described in the command
documentation.

In 434e6e753f (config.txt: move grep.* to a separate file,
2018-10-27) we gained the include, but didn't do this next step, let's
do it now.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-09-07 09:46:05 -07:00
Carlos López
68437ede53 grep: add --max-count command line option
This patch adds a command line option analogous to that of GNU
grep(1)'s -m / --max-count, which users might already be used to.
This makes it possible to limit the amount of matches shown in the
output while keeping the functionality of other options such as -C
(show code context) or -p (show containing function), which would be
difficult to do with a shell pipeline (e.g. head(1)).

Signed-off-by: Carlos López 00xc@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2022-06-22 13:23:29 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
414abf159f docs: fix linting issues due to incorrect relative section order
Re-order the sections of a few manual pages to be consistent with the
entirety of the rest of our documentation. This allows us to remove
the just-added whitelist of "bad" order from
lint-man-section-order.perl.

I'm doing that this way around so that code will be easy to dig up if
we'll need it in the future. I've intentionally not added some other
sections such as EXAMPLES to the list of known sections.

If we were to add that we'd find some out of order. Perhaps we'll want
to order those consistently as well in the future, at which point
whitelisting some of them might become handy again.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2021-04-10 23:36:34 -07:00
Philippe Blain
0cce88f1e4 doc: add more pointers to gitattributes(5) for userdiff
Several Git commands can make use of the builtin userdiff patterns, but
it's not obvious in the documentation. Add pointers to the 'Defining a
custom hunk header' part of gitattributes(5) in the description of the
following options:

- the '--function-context' option of `git diff` and friends
- the '--function-context' option of `git grep`
- the '-L :<funcname>' option of `git log`, `gitk` and `git blame`

In 'git-grep.txt', take the opportunity to use backticks in the
description of '--show-function', and improve the wording of the
desription of '--function-context'.

Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-11-01 15:54:14 -08:00
Jean-Noël Avila
49fbf9ed71 doc: use linkgit macro where needed.
Signed-off-by: Jean-Noël Avila <jn.avila@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-10-08 14:01:18 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
33a1060988 Merge branch 'mt/grep-cquote-path'
"git grep" did not quote a path with unusual character like other
commands (like "git diff", "git status") do, but did quote when run
from a subdirectory, both of which has been corrected.

* mt/grep-cquote-path:
  grep: follow conventions for printing paths w/ unusual chars
2020-04-28 15:50:09 -07:00
Matheus Tavares
45115d8490 grep: follow conventions for printing paths w/ unusual chars
grep does not follow the conventions used by other Git commands when
printing paths that contain unusual characters (as double-quotes or
newlines). Commands such as ls-files, commit, status and diff will:

- Quote and escape unusual pathnames, by default.
- Print names verbatim and unquoted when "-z" is used.

But grep *never* quotes/escapes absolute paths with unusual chars and
*always* quotes/escapes relative ones, even with "-z". Besides being
inconsistent in its own output, the deviation from other Git commands
can be confusing. So let's make it follow the two rules above and add
some tests for this new behavior. Note that, making grep quote/escape
all unusual paths by default, also make it fully compliant with the
core.quotePath configuration, which is currently ignored for absolute
paths.

Reported-by: Greg Hurrell <greg@hurrell.net>
Helped-by: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-20 13:01:43 -07:00
Damien Robert
acbfae32a3 doc: --recurse-submodules mostly applies to active submodules
The documentation refers to "initialized" or "populated" submodules,
to explain which submodules are affected by '--recurse-submodules', but
the real terminology here is 'active' submodules. Update the
documentation accordingly.

Some terminology:
- Active is defined in gitsubmodules(7), it only involves the
  configuration variables 'submodule.active', 'submodule.<name>.active'
  and 'submodule.<name>.url'. The function
  submodule.c::is_submodule_active checks that a submodule is active.
- Populated means that the submodule's working tree is present (and the
  gitfile correctly points to the submodule repository), i.e. either the
  superproject was cloned with ` --recurse-submodules`, or the user ran
  `git submodule update --init`, or `git submodule init [<path>]` and
  `git submodule update [<path>]` separately which populated the
  submodule working tree. This does not involve the 3 configuration
  variables above.
- Initialized (at least in the context of the man pages involved in this
  patch) means both "populated" and "active" as defined above, i.e. what
  `git submodule update --init` does.

The --recurse-submodules option mostly affects active submodules. An
exception is `git fetch` where the option affects populated submodules.
As a consequence, in `git pull --recurse-submodules` the fetch affects
populated submodules, but the resulting working tree update only affects
active submodules.

In the documentation of `git-pull`, let's distinguish between the
fetching part which affects populated submodules, and the updating of
worktrees, which only affects active submodules.

Signed-off-by: Damien Robert <damien.olivier.robert+git@gmail.com>
Helped-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-04-06 13:42:43 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
56ceb64eb0 Merge branch 'mt/threaded-grep-in-object-store'
Traditionally, we avoided threaded grep while searching in objects
(as opposed to files in the working tree) as accesses to the object
layer is not thread-safe.  This limitation is getting lifted.

* mt/threaded-grep-in-object-store:
  grep: use no. of cores as the default no. of threads
  grep: move driver pre-load out of critical section
  grep: re-enable threads in non-worktree case
  grep: protect packed_git [re-]initialization
  grep: allow submodule functions to run in parallel
  submodule-config: add skip_if_read option to repo_read_gitmodules()
  grep: replace grep_read_mutex by internal obj read lock
  object-store: allow threaded access to object reading
  replace-object: make replace operations thread-safe
  grep: fix racy calls in grep_objects()
  grep: fix race conditions at grep_submodule()
  grep: fix race conditions on userdiff calls
2020-02-14 12:54:20 -08:00
Philippe Blain
c56c48dd07 grep: ignore --recurse-submodules if --no-index is given
Since grep learned to recurse into submodules in 0281e487fd
(grep: optionally recurse into submodules, 2016-12-16),
using --recurse-submodules along with --no-index makes Git
die().

This is unfortunate because if submodule.recurse is set in a user's
~/.gitconfig, invoking `git grep --no-index` either inside or outside
a Git repository results in

    fatal: option not supported with --recurse-submodules

Let's allow using these options together, so that setting submodule.recurse
globally does not prevent using `git grep --no-index`.

Using `--recurse-submodules` should not have any effect if `--no-index`
is used inside a repository, as Git will recurse into the checked out
submodule directories just like into regular directories.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Blain <levraiphilippeblain@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-30 10:15:58 -08:00
Matheus Tavares
f1928f04b2 grep: use no. of cores as the default no. of threads
When --threads is not specified, git-grep will use 8 threads by default.
This fixed number may be too many for machines with fewer cores and too
little for machines with more cores. So, instead, use the number of
logical cores available in the machine, which seems to result in the
best overall performance: The following measurements correspond to the
mean elapsed times for 30 git-grep executions in chromium's
repository[1] with a 95% confidence interval (each set of 30 were
performed after 2 warmup runs). Regex 1 is 'abcd[02]' and Regex 2 is
'(static|extern) (int|double) \*'.

      |          Working tree         |           Object Store
------|-------------------------------|--------------------------------
 #ths |  Regex 1      |  Regex 2      |   Regex 1      |   Regex 2
------|---------------|---------------|----------------|---------------
  32  |  2.92s ± 0.01 |  3.72s ± 0.21 |   5.36s ± 0.01 |   6.07s ± 0.01
  16  |  2.84s ± 0.01 |  3.57s ± 0.21 |   5.05s ± 0.01 |   5.71s ± 0.01
>  8  |  2.53s ± 0.00 |  3.24s ± 0.21 |   4.86s ± 0.01 |   5.48s ± 0.01
   4  |  2.43s ± 0.02 |  3.22s ± 0.20 |   5.22s ± 0.02 |   6.03s ± 0.02
   2  |  3.06s ± 0.20 |  4.52s ± 0.01 |   7.52s ± 0.01 |   9.06s ± 0.01
   1  |  6.16s ± 0.01 |  9.25s ± 0.02 |  14.10s ± 0.01 |  17.22s ± 0.01

The above tests were performed in a desktop running Debian 10.0 with
Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1230 V2 (4 cores w/ hyper-threading), 32GB of
RAM and a 7200 rpm, SATA 3.1 HDD.

Bellow, the tests were repeated for a machine with SSD: a Manjaro laptop
with Intel(R) i7-7700HQ (4 cores w/ hyper-threading) and 16GB of RAM:

      |          Working tree          |           Object Store
------|--------------------------------|--------------------------------
 #ths |  Regex 1      |  Regex 2       |   Regex 1      |   Regex 2
------|---------------|----------------|----------------|---------------
  32  |  3.29s ± 0.21 |   4.30s ± 0.01 |   6.30s ± 0.01 |   7.30s ± 0.02
  16  |  3.19s ± 0.20 |   4.14s ± 0.02 |   5.91s ± 0.01 |   6.83s ± 0.01
>  8  |  2.90s ± 0.04 |   3.82s ± 0.20 |   5.70s ± 0.02 |   6.53s ± 0.01
   4  |  2.84s ± 0.02 |   3.77s ± 0.20 |   6.19s ± 0.02 |   7.18s ± 0.02
   2  |  3.73s ± 0.21 |   5.57s ± 0.02 |   9.28s ± 0.01 |  11.22s ± 0.01
   1  |  7.48s ± 0.02 |  11.36s ± 0.03 |  17.75s ± 0.01 |  21.87s ± 0.08

[1]: chromium’s repo at commit 03ae96f (“Add filters testing at DSF=2”,
     04-06-2019), after a 'git gc' execution.

Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-17 13:52:15 -08:00
Matheus Tavares
1184a95ea2 grep: re-enable threads in non-worktree case
They were disabled at 53b8d93 ("grep: disable threading in non-worktree
case", 12-12-2011), due to observable performance drops (to the point
that using a single thread would be faster than multiple threads). But
now that zlib inflation can be performed in parallel we can regain the
speedup, so let's re-enable threads in non-worktree grep.

Grepping 'abcd[02]' ("Regex 1") and '(static|extern) (int|double) \*'
("Regex 2") at chromium's repository[1] I got:

 Threads |   Regex 1  |  Regex 2
---------|------------|-----------
    1    |  17.2920s  |  20.9624s
    2    |   9.6512s  |  11.3184s
    4    |   6.7723s  |   7.6268s
    8**  |   6.2886s  |   6.9843s

These are all means of 30 executions after 2 warmup runs. All tests were
executed on an i7-7700HQ (quad-core w/ hyper-threading), 16GB of RAM and
SSD, running Manjaro Linux. But to make sure the optimization also
performs well on HDD, the tests were repeated on another machine with an
i5-4210U (dual-core w/ hyper-threading), 8GB of RAM and HDD (SATA III,
5400 rpm), also running Manjaro Linux:

 Threads |   Regex 1  |  Regex 2
---------|------------|-----------
    1    |  18.4035s  |  22.5368s
    2    |  12.5063s  |  14.6409s
    4**  |  10.9136s  |  12.7106s

** Note that in these cases we relied on hyper-threading, and that's
   probably why we don't see a big difference in time.

Unfortunately, multithreaded git-grep might be slow in the non-worktree
case when --textconv is used and there're too many text conversions.
Probably the reason for this is that the object read lock is used to
protect fill_textconv() and therefore there is a mutual exclusion
between textconv execution and object reading. Because both are
time-consuming operations, not being able to perform them in parallel
can cause performance drops. To inform the users about this (and other
threading details), let's also add a "NOTES ON THREADS" section to
Documentation/git-grep.txt.

[1]: chromium’s repo at commit 03ae96f (“Add filters testing at DSF=2”,
     04-06-2019), after a 'git gc' execution.

Signed-off-by: Matheus Tavares <matheus.bernardino@usp.br>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2020-01-17 13:52:14 -08:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
25754125ce grep: make the behavior for NUL-byte in patterns sane
The behavior of "grep" when patterns contained a NUL-byte has always
been haphazard, and has served the vagaries of the implementation more
than anything else. A pattern containing a NUL-byte can only be
provided via "-f <file>". Since pickaxe (log search) has no such flag
the NUL-byte in patterns has only ever been supported by "grep" (and
not "log --grep").

Since 9eceddeec6 ("Use kwset in grep", 2011-08-21) patterns containing
"\0" were considered fixed. In 966be95549 ("grep: add tests to fix
blind spots with \0 patterns", 2017-05-20) I added tests for this
behavior.

Change the behavior to do the obvious thing, i.e. don't silently
discard a regex pattern and make it implicitly fixed just because they
contain a NUL-byte. Instead die if the backend in question can't
handle them, e.g. --basic-regexp is combined with such a pattern.

This is desired because from a user's point of view it's the obvious
thing to do. Whether we support BRE/ERE/Perl syntax is different from
whether our implementation is limited by C-strings. These patterns are
obscure enough that I think this behavior change is OK, especially
since we never documented the old behavior.

Doing this also makes it easier to replace the kwset backend with
something else, since we'll no longer strictly need it for anything we
can't easily use another fixed-string backend for.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-07-01 14:33:14 -07:00
Martin Ågren
8d75a1d183 Documentation: turn middle-of-line tabs into spaces
These tabs happen to appear in columns where they don't stand out too
much, so the diff here is non-obvious. Some of these are rendered
differently by AsciiDoc and Asciidoctor (although the difference might
be invisible!), which is how I found a few of them. The remainder were
found using `git grep "[a-zA-Z.,)]$TAB[a-zA-Z]"`.

Signed-off-by: Martin Ågren <martin.agren@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2019-03-07 09:25:32 +09:00
René Scharfe
0a09e5edc2 grep: add -r/--[no-]recursive
Recognize -r and --recursive as synonyms for --max-depth=-1 for
compatibility with GNU grep; it's still the default for git grep.

This also adds --no-recursive as synonym for --max-depth=0 for free,
which is welcome for completeness and consistency.

Fix the description for --max-depth, while we're at it -- negative
values other than -1 actually disable recursion, i.e. they are
equivalent to --max-depth=0.

Requested-by: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
Suggested-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Initial-patch-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-10-03 21:25:57 -07:00
Taylor Blau
9d8db06eb4 grep.c: teach 'git grep --only-matching'
Teach 'git grep --only-matching', a new option to only print the
matching part(s) of a line.

For instance, a line containing the following (taken from README.md:27):

  (`man gitcvs-migration` or `git help cvs-migration` if git is

Is printed as follows:

  $ git grep --line-number --column --only-matching -e git -- \
    README.md | grep ":27"
  README.md:27:7:git
  README.md:27:16:git
  README.md:27:38:git

The patch works mostly as one would expect, with the exception of a few
considerations that are worth mentioning here.

Like GNU grep, this patch ignores --only-matching when --invert (-v) is
given. There is a sensible answer here, but parity with the behavior of
other tools is preferred.

Because a line might contain more than one match, there are special
considerations pertaining to when to print line headers, newlines, and
how to increment the match column offset. The line header and newlines
are handled as a special case within the main loop to avoid polluting
the surrounding code with conditionals that have large blocks.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-07-09 14:15:28 -07:00
Taylor Blau
6653fec3bb grep.c: add configuration variables to show matched option
To support git-grep(1)'s new option, '--column', document and teach
grep.c how to interpret relevant configuration options, similar to those
associated with '--line-number'.

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-22 12:59:02 -07:00
Taylor Blau
a449f27ffa builtin/grep.c: add '--column' option to 'git-grep(1)'
Teach 'git-grep(1)' a new option, '--column', to show the column
number of the first match on a non-context line. This makes it possible
to teach 'contrib/git-jump/git-jump' how to seek to the first matching
position of a grep match in your editor, and allows similar additional
scripting capabilities.

For example:

  $ git grep -n --column foo | head -n3
  .clang-format:51:14:# myFunction(foo, bar, baz);
  .clang-format:64:7:# int foo();
  .clang-format:75:8:# void foo()

Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-06-22 12:59:02 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
76a8788c14 doc: keep first level section header in upper case
When formatted as a man page, 1st section header is always in upper
case even if we write it otherwise. Make all 1st section headers
uppercase to keep it close to the final output.

This does affect html since case is kept there, but I still think it's
a good idea to maintain a consistent style for 1st section headers.

Some sections perhaps should become second sections instead, where
case is kept, and for better organization. I will update if anyone has
suggestions about this.

While at there I also make some header more consistent (e.g. examples
vs example) and fix a couple minor things here and there.

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2018-05-02 17:03:33 +09:00
Junio C Hamano
9124cca61f Merge branch 'mr/doc-negative-pathspec'
Doc updates.

* mr/doc-negative-pathspec:
  docs: improve discoverability of exclude pathspec
2017-10-03 15:42:50 +09:00
Manav Rathi
93dbefb389 docs: improve discoverability of exclude pathspec
The ability to exclude paths with a negative pathspec is not mentioned
in the man pages for git grep and other commands where it might be
useful.

Add an example and a pointer to the pathspec glossary entry in the man
page for git grep to help the user to discover this ability.

Add similar pointers from the git-add and git-status man pages.

Additionally,

- Add a test for the behaviour when multiple exclusions are present.
- Add a test for the ^ alias.
- Improve name of existing test.
- Improve grammar in glossary description of the exclude pathspec.

Helped-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Manav Rathi <mnvrth@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-09-25 17:54:36 +09:00
Brandon Williams
f9ee2fcdfa grep: recurse in-process using 'struct repository'
Convert grep to use 'struct repository' which enables recursing into
submodules to be handled in-process.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-08-02 14:26:46 -07:00
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
d048cb13c2 grep & rev-list doc: stop promising libpcre for --perl-regexp
Stop promising in our grep & rev-list options documentation that we're
always going to be using libpcre when given the --perl-regexp option.

Instead talk about using "Perl-compatible regular expressions" and
using these types of patterns using "a compile-time dependency".

Saying "libpcre" means that we're talking about libpcre.so, which is
always going to be v1. This change is part of an ongoing saga to add
support for libpcre2, which comes with PCRE v2.

In the future we might use some completely unrelated library to
provide perl-compatible regular expression support. By wording the
documentation differently and not promising any specific version of
PCRE or even PCRE at all we have more wiggle room to change the
implementation.

Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2017-05-21 08:25:37 +09:00
Brandon Williams
74ed43711f grep: enable recurse-submodules to work on <tree> objects
Teach grep to recursively search in submodules when provided with a
<tree> object. This allows grep to search a submodule based on the state
of the submodule that is present in a commit of the super project.

When grep is provided with a <tree> object, the name of the object is
prefixed to all output.  In order to provide uniformity of output
between the parent and child processes the option `--parent-basename`
has been added so that the child can preface all of it's output with the
name of the parent's object instead of the name of the commit SHA1 of
the submodule. This changes output from the command
`git grep -e. -l --recurse-submodules HEAD` from:

      HEAD:file
      <commit sha1 of submodule>:sub/file

to:

      HEAD:file
      HEAD:sub/file

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-22 11:47:33 -08:00
Brandon Williams
0281e487fd grep: optionally recurse into submodules
Allow grep to recognize submodules and recursively search for patterns in
each submodule.  This is done by forking off a process to recursively
call grep on each submodule.  The top level --super-prefix option is
used to pass a path to the submodule which can in turn be used to
prepend to output or in pathspec matching logic.

Recursion only occurs for submodules which have been initialized and
checked out by the parent project.  If a submodule hasn't been
initialized and checked out it is simply skipped.

In order to support the existing multi-threading infrastructure in grep,
output from each child process is captured in a strbuf so that it can be
later printed to the console in an ordered fashion.

To limit the number of theads that are created, each child process has
half the number of threads as its parents (minimum of 1), otherwise we
potentailly have a fork-bomb.

Signed-off-by: Brandon Williams <bmwill@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-12-22 11:47:33 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
bcf9626a71 doc: typeset long command-line options as literal
Similarly to the previous commit, use backquotes instead of
forward-quotes, for long options.

This was obtained with:

  perl -pi -e "s/'(--[a-z][a-z=<>-]*)'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt

and manual tweak to remove false positive in ascii-art (o'--o'--o' to
describe rewritten history).

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 08:36:45 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
23f8239bbe doc: typeset short command-line options as literal
It was common in our documentation to surround short option names with
forward quotes, which renders as italic in HTML. Instead, use backquotes
which renders as monospace. This is one more step toward conformance to
Documentation/CodingGuidelines.

This was obtained with:

  perl -pi -e "s/'(-[a-z])'/\`\$1\`/g" *.txt

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-28 08:20:52 -07:00
Tom Russello
ae9f6311e9 doc: change configuration variables format
This change configuration variables that where in italic style
to monospace font according to the guideline. It was obtained with

	grep '[[:alpha:]]*\.[[:alpha:]]*::$' config.txt | \
	sed -e 's/::$//' -e 's/\./\\\\./' | \
	xargs -iP perl -pi -e "s/\'P\'/\`P\`/g" ./*.txt

Signed-off-by: Tom Russello <tom.russello@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Erwan Mathoniere <erwan.mathoniere@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Samuel Groot <samuel.groot@grenoble-inp.org>
Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <matthieu.moy@grenoble-inp.fr>
Reviewed-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-06-08 12:04:55 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
52bae62f78 Merge branch 'tg/grep-no-index-fallback'
"git grep" by default does not fall back to its "--no-index"
behaviour outside a directory under Git's control (otherwise the
user may by mistake end up running a huge recursive search); with a
new configuration (set in $HOME/.gitconfig--by definition this
cannot be set in the config file per project), this safety can be
disabled.

* tg/grep-no-index-fallback:
  builtin/grep: add grep.fallbackToNoIndex config
  t7810: correct --no-index test
2016-01-20 11:43:39 -08:00
Thomas Gummerer
ecd9ba6177 builtin/grep: add grep.fallbackToNoIndex config
Currently when git grep is used outside of a git repository without the
--no-index option git simply dies.  For convenience, add a
grep.fallbackToNoIndex configuration variable.  If set to true, git grep
behaves like git grep --no-index if it is run outside of a git
repository.  It defaults to false, preserving the current behavior.

Helped-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Helped-by: Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gummerer <t.gummerer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2016-01-12 10:54:31 -08:00
Victor Leschuk
89f09dd34e grep: add --threads=<num> option and grep.threads configuration
"git grep" can now be configured (or told from the command line) how
many threads to use when searching in the working tree files.

Signed-off-by: Victor Leschuk <vleschuk@accesssoftek.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-12-16 12:03:23 -08:00
Matthieu Moy
2b594bf90d Documentation: explain optional arguments better
Improve the documentation of commands taking optional arguments in two
ways:

* Documents the behavior of '-O' (for grep) and '-S' (for commands
  creating commits) when used without the optional argument.

* Document the syntax of these options.

For the second point, the behavior is documented in gitcli(7), but it is
easy for users to miss, and hard for the same user to understand why e.g.
"git status -u no" does not work.

Document this explicitly in the documentation of each short option having
an optional argument: they are the most error prone since there is no '='
sign between the option and its argument.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-21 10:48:23 -07:00
Matthieu Moy
318ca61531 Documentation/grep: fix documentation of -O
Since the argument of -O, --open-file-in-pager is optional, it must be
stuck to the command. Reflect this in the documentation.

Signed-off-by: Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@imag.fr>
Reviewed-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2015-09-21 10:48:21 -07:00
Andreas Schwab
6453f7b348 grep: add grep.fullName config variable
This configuration variable sets the default for the --full-name option.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2014-03-20 12:38:00 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
4197361e39 Merge branch 'mg/more-textconv'
Make "git grep" and "git show" pay attention to --textconv when
dealing with blob objects.

* mg/more-textconv:
  grep: honor --textconv for the case rev:path
  grep: allow to use textconv filters
  t7008: demonstrate behavior of grep with textconv
  cat-file: do not die on --textconv without textconv filters
  show: honor --textconv for blobs
  diff_opt: track whether flags have been set explicitly
  t4030: demonstrate behavior of show with textconv
2013-10-23 13:21:31 -07:00
Felipe Contreras
0460ed2c93 documentation: trivial style cleanups
White-spaces, missing braces, standardize --[no-]foo.

Signed-off-by: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-17 12:09:21 -07:00
Jeff King
335ec3bf41 grep: allow to use textconv filters
Recently and not so recently, we made sure that log/grep type operations
use textconv filters when a userfacing diff would do the same:

ef90ab6 (pickaxe: use textconv for -S counting, 2012-10-28)
b1c2f57 (diff_grep: use textconv buffers for add/deleted files, 2012-10-28)
0508fe5 (combine-diff: respect textconv attributes, 2011-05-23)

"git grep" currently does not use textconv filters at all, that is
neither for displaying the match and context nor for the actual grepping,
even when requested by --textconv.

Introduce an option "--textconv" which makes git grep use any configured
textconv filters for grepping and output purposes. It is off by default.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-05-10 10:27:31 -07:00
Thomas Ackermann
2de9b71138 Documentation: the name of the system is 'Git', not 'git'
Signed-off-by: Thomas Ackermann <th.acker@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2013-02-01 13:53:33 -08:00
J Smith
84befcd0a4 grep: add a grep.patternType configuration setting
The grep.extendedRegexp configuration setting enables the -E flag on grep
by default but there are no equivalents for the -G, -F and -P flags.

Rather than adding an additional setting for grep.fooRegexp for current
and future pattern matching options, add a grep.patternType setting that
can accept appropriate values for modifying the default grep pattern
matching behavior. The current values are "basic", "extended", "fixed",
"perl" and "default" for setting -G, -E, -F, -P and the default behavior
respectively.

When grep.patternType is set to a value other than "default", the
grep.extendedRegexp setting is ignored. The value of "default" restores
the current default behavior, including the grep.extendedRegexp
behavior.

Signed-off-by: J Smith <dark.panda@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-08-03 09:58:02 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
fca9e0013e Merge branch 'rs/maint-grep-F'
"git grep -e '$pattern'", unlike the case where the patterns are read from
a file, did not treat individual lines in the given pattern argument as
separate regular expressions as it should.
2012-05-25 12:04:19 -07:00
René Scharfe
526a858a99 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) <torne@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-05-20 15:25:46 -07:00
Jeff King
6cf378f0cb docs: stop using asciidoc no-inline-literal
In asciidoc 7, backticks like `foo` produced a typographic
effect, but did not otherwise affect the syntax. In asciidoc
8, backticks introduce an "inline literal" inside which markup
is not interpreted. To keep compatibility with existing
documents, asciidoc 8 has a "no-inline-literal" attribute to
keep the old behavior. We enabled this so that the
documentation could be built on either version.

It has been several years now, and asciidoc 7 is no longer
in wide use. We can now decide whether or not we want
inline literals on their own merits, which are:

  1. The source is much easier to read when the literal
     contains punctuation. You can use `master~1` instead
     of `master{tilde}1`.

  2. They are less error-prone. Because of point (1), we
     tend to make mistakes and forget the extra layer of
     quoting.

This patch removes the no-inline-literal attribute from the
Makefile and converts every use of backticks in the
documentation to an inline literal (they must be cleaned up,
or the example above would literally show "{tilde}" in the
output).

Problematic sites were found by grepping for '`.*[{\\]' and
examined and fixed manually. The results were then verified
by comparing the output of "html2text" on the set of
generated html pages. Doing so revealed that in addition to
making the source more readable, this patch fixes several
formatting bugs:

  - HTML rendering used the ellipsis character instead of
    literal "..." in code examples (like "git log A...B")

  - some code examples used the right-arrow character
    instead of '->' because they failed to quote

  - api-config.txt did not quote tilde, and the resulting
    HTML contained a bogus snippet like:

      <tt><sub></tt> foo <tt></sub>bar</tt>

    which caused some parsers to choke and omit whole
    sections of the page.

  - git-commit.txt confused ``foo`` (backticks inside a
    literal) with ``foo'' (matched double-quotes)

  - mentions of `A U Thor <author@example.com>` used to
    erroneously auto-generate a mailto footnote for
    author@example.com

  - the description of --word-diff=plain incorrectly showed
    the output as "[-removed-] and {added}", not "{+added+}".

  - using "prime" notation like:

      commit `C` and its replacement `C'`

    confused asciidoc into thinking that everything between
    the first backtick and the final apostrophe were meant
    to be inside matched quotes

  - asciidoc got confused by the escaping of some of our
    asterisks. In particular,

      `credential.\*` and `credential.<url>.\*`

    properly escaped the asterisk in the first case, but
    literally passed through the backslash in the second
    case.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-04-26 13:19:06 -07:00
Mark Lodato
a12c6b0149 grep doc: add --break / --heading / -W to synopsis
All of the other options were included in the synopsis, so it makes
sense to include these as well.

Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-03-26 12:06:48 -07:00
Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
8c69c1f92e Document limited recursion pathspec matching with wildcards
It's actually unlimited recursion if wildcards are active regardless
--max-depth

Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2012-01-14 18:39:04 -08:00
Junio C Hamano
dbfae86a7b Merge branch 'jc/maint-grep-untracked-exclude' into jc/grep-untracked-exclude
* jc/maint-grep-untracked-exclude:
  grep: teach --untracked and --exclude-standard options
  grep --no-index: don't use git standard exclusions
  grep: do not use --index in the short usage output

Conflicts:
	Documentation/git-grep.txt
	builtin/grep.c
2011-10-04 18:40:41 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
0a93fb8a9c grep: teach --untracked and --exclude-standard options
In a working tree of a git managed repository, "grep --untracked" would
find the specified patterns from files in untracked files in addition to
its usual behaviour of finding them in the tracked files.

By default, when working with "--no-index" option, "grep" does not pay
attention to .gitignore mechanism. "grep --no-index --exclude-standard"
can be used to tell the command to use .gitignore and stop reporting hits
from files that would be ignored. Also, when working without "--no-index",
"grep" honors .gitignore mechanism, and "grep --no-exclude-standard" can
be used to tell the command to include hits from files that are ignored.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-10-04 18:33:45 -07:00
Junio C Hamano
5fb249aec7 Merge branch 'rs/grep-function-context'
* rs/grep-function-context:
  grep: long context options
  grep: add option to show whole function as context
2011-08-11 11:03:09 -07:00
Jeff King
5d2fc9135a docs: put listed example commands in backticks
Many examples of git command invocation are given in asciidoc listing
blocks, which makes them monospaced and avoids further interpretation of
special characters.  Some manpages make a list of examples, like:

  git foo::
    Run git foo.

  git foo -q::
    Use the "-q" option.

to quickly show many variants. However, they can sometimes be hard to
read, because they are shown in a proportional-width font (so, for
example, seeing the difference between "-- foo" and "--foo" can be
difficult).

This patch puts all such examples into backticks, which gives the
equivalent formatting to a listing block (i.e., monospaced and without
character interpretation).

As a bonus, this also fixes an example in the git-push manpage, in which
"git push origin :::" was accidentally considered a newly-indented list,
and not a list item with "git push origin :" in it.

Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-04 15:49:13 -07:00
René Scharfe
317f63c21c grep: long context options
Take long option names for -A (--after-context), -B (--before-context)
and -C (--context) from GNU grep and add a similar long option name
for -W (--function-context).

Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2011-08-01 16:11:50 -07:00