git/Documentation/git-grep.txt
Michał Kiedrowicz a91f453f64 grep: Add --max-depth option.
It is useful to grep directories non-recursively, e.g. when one wants to
look for all files in the toplevel directory, but not in any subdirectory,
or in Documentation/, but not in Documentation/technical/.

This patch adds support for --max-depth <depth> option to git-grep. If it is
given, git-grep descends at most <depth> levels of directories below paths
specified on the command line.

Note that if path specified on command line contains wildcards, this option
makes no sense, e.g.

    $ git grep -l --max-depth 0 GNU -- 'contrib/*'

(note the quotes) will search all files in contrib/, even in
subdirectories, because '*' matches all files.

Documentation updates, bash-completion and simple test cases are also
provided.

Signed-off-by: Michał Kiedrowicz <michal.kiedrowicz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
2009-07-22 21:54:54 -07:00

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git-grep(1)
===========
NAME
----
git-grep - Print lines matching a pattern
SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
'git grep' [--cached]
[-a | --text] [-I] [-i | --ignore-case] [-w | --word-regexp]
[-v | --invert-match] [-h|-H] [--full-name]
[-E | --extended-regexp] [-G | --basic-regexp]
[-F | --fixed-strings] [-n]
[-l | --files-with-matches] [-L | --files-without-match]
[-z | --null]
[-c | --count] [--all-match]
[--max-depth <depth>]
[--color | --no-color]
[-A <post-context>] [-B <pre-context>] [-C <context>]
[-f <file>] [-e] <pattern>
[--and|--or|--not|(|)|-e <pattern>...] [<tree>...]
[--] [<path>...]
DESCRIPTION
-----------
Look for specified patterns in the working tree files, blobs
registered in the index file, or given tree objects.
OPTIONS
-------
--cached::
Instead of searching in the working tree files, check
the blobs registered in the index file.
-a::
--text::
Process binary files as if they were text.
-i::
--ignore-case::
Ignore case differences between the patterns and the
files.
-I::
Don't match the pattern in binary files.
--max-depth <depth>::
For each pathspec given on command line, descend at most <depth>
levels of directories. A negative value means no limit.
-w::
--word-regexp::
Match the pattern only at word boundary (either begin at the
beginning of a line, or preceded by a non-word character; end at
the end of a line or followed by a non-word character).
-v::
--invert-match::
Select non-matching lines.
-h::
-H::
By default, the command shows the filename for each
match. `-h` option is used to suppress this output.
`-H` is there for completeness and does not do anything
except it overrides `-h` given earlier on the command
line.
--full-name::
When run from a subdirectory, the command usually
outputs paths relative to the current directory. This
option forces paths to be output relative to the project
top directory.
-E::
--extended-regexp::
-G::
--basic-regexp::
Use POSIX extended/basic regexp for patterns. Default
is to use basic regexp.
-F::
--fixed-strings::
Use fixed strings for patterns (don't interpret pattern
as a regex).
-n::
Prefix the line number to matching lines.
-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 compatibility with 'git-diff', --name-only is a
synonym for --files-with-matches.
-z::
--null::
Output \0 instead of the character that normally follows a
file name.
-c::
--count::
Instead of showing every matched line, show the number of
lines that match.
--color::
Show colored matches.
--no-color::
Turn off match highlighting, even when the configuration file
gives the default to color output.
-[ABC] <context>::
Show `context` trailing (`A` -- after), or leading (`B`
-- before), or both (`C` -- context) lines, and place a
line containing `--` between contiguous groups of
matches.
-<num>::
A shortcut for specifying -C<num>.
-p::
--show-function::
Show the preceding line that contains the function name of
the match, unless the matching line is a function name itself.
The name is determined in the same way as 'git diff' works out
patch hunk headers (see 'Defining a custom hunk-header' in
linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
-f <file>::
Read patterns from <file>, one per line.
-e::
The next parameter is the pattern. This option has to be
used for patterns starting with - and should be used in
scripts passing user input to grep. Multiple patterns are
combined by 'or'.
--and::
--or::
--not::
( ... )::
Specify how multiple patterns are combined using Boolean
expressions. `--or` is the default operator. `--and` has
higher precedence than `--or`. `-e` has to be used for all
patterns.
--all-match::
When giving multiple pattern expressions combined with `--or`,
this flag is specified to limit the match to files that
have lines to match all of them.
`<tree>...`::
Search blobs in the trees for specified patterns.
\--::
Signals the end of options; the rest of the parameters
are <path> limiters.
Example
-------
git grep -e \'#define\' --and \( -e MAX_PATH -e PATH_MAX \)::
Looks for a line that has `#define` and either `MAX_PATH` or
`PATH_MAX`.
git grep --all-match -e NODE -e Unexpected::
Looks for a line that has `NODE` or `Unexpected` in
files that have lines that match both.
Author
------
Originally written by Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, later
revamped by Junio C Hamano.
Documentation
--------------
Documentation by Junio C Hamano and the git-list <git@vger.kernel.org>.
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