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| author | Manav Rathi <mnvrth@gmail.com> | 2017-09-25 08:09:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> | 2017-09-25 08:54:36 (GMT) |
| commit | 93dbefb389a011c9107a3908fd38e743055be267 (patch) | |
| tree | d25857fead15bb1130e89139849c3593a1eb32e0 /Documentation/git-grep.txt | |
| parent | 7234152e66e52c7601789f6de822bb39590f0595 (diff) | |
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/git-grep.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/git-grep.txt | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 71f32f3..56fb559 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -293,6 +293,9 @@ OPTIONS <pathspec>...:: If given, limit the search to paths matching at least one pattern. Both leading paths match and glob(7) patterns are supported. ++ +For more details about the <pathspec> syntax, see the 'pathspec' entry +in linkgit:gitglossary[7]. Examples -------- @@ -309,6 +312,9 @@ Examples Looks for a line that has `NODE` or `Unexpected` in files that have lines that match both. +`git grep solution -- :^Documentation`:: + Looks for `solution`, excluding files in `Documentation`. + GIT --- Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite |