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Diffstat (limited to 'builtin/grep.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | builtin/grep.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c index bcb07ea..e6bcdf8 100644 --- a/builtin/grep.c +++ b/builtin/grep.c @@ -961,6 +961,8 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) OPT_BOOL_F(0, "ext-grep", &external_grep_allowed__ignored, N_("allow calling of grep(1) (ignored by this build)"), PARSE_OPT_NOCOMPLETE), + OPT_INTEGER('m', "max-count", &opt.max_count, + N_("maximum number of results per file")), OPT_END() }; grep_prefix = prefix; @@ -1101,6 +1103,13 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char *prefix) if (recurse_submodules && untracked) die(_("--untracked not supported with --recurse-submodules")); + /* + * Optimize out the case where the amount of matches is limited to zero. + * We do this to keep results consistent with GNU grep(1). + */ + if (opt.max_count == 0) + return 1; + if (show_in_pager) { if (num_threads > 1) warning(_("invalid option combination, ignoring --threads")); |