Junio C Hamano wrote: > The --near Matthias talk about is syntactically not like --and > but more like --not. It takes a condition for a line after > that, and loosens it to cover nearby lines. So "-e A" > means "the line must have A on it" but "--near -e A" means "the > line must be nearby a line that satisfies `-e A'". > > Matthias's "--near EXP" is spelled as "-e '' --near EXP" (the > first one is always true) with our syntax, in other words. > > I do not think either of these semantics is invalid; they are > just different. The version by Matthias is more general and > more expressive. It also uses the fact that grep search for _lines_, the fact I have forgot about. But if we cannot search for multiline regexp using git-grep, Matthias version is truly more expressive, especially with context limiting extension. -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Jul 01 05:13:02 2006
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