Teach git-grep --name-only as synonym for -l
I expected git grep --name-only to give me only the file names,
much as git diff --name-only only generates filenames. Alas the
option is -l, which matches common external greps but doesn't match
other parts of the git UI.
Signed-off-by: Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index f3cb24f..71a7335 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -75,9 +75,11 @@
-n::
Prefix the line number to matching lines.
--l | --files-with-matches | -L | --files-without-match::
+-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 compatability with git-diff, --name-only is a
+ synonym for --files-with-matches.
-c | --count::
Instead of showing every matched line, show the number of
diff --git a/builtin-grep.c b/builtin-grep.c
index 9180b39..f4f4ecb 100644
--- a/builtin-grep.c
+++ b/builtin-grep.c
@@ -578,6 +578,7 @@
continue;
}
if (!strcmp("-l", arg) ||
+ !strcmp("--name-only", arg) ||
!strcmp("--files-with-matches", arg)) {
opt.name_only = 1;
continue;
