From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] fix usage string for git grep
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:13:08 -0500 (CDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080720141308.BIU48280@m4500-01.uchicago.edu> (raw)
Without this patch, git-grep gives confusing usage information:
$ git grep --confused
usage: git grep <option>* <rev>* [-e] <pattern> [<path>...]
$ git grep HEAD pattern
fatal: ambiguous argument 'pattern': unknown revision or path no
t in the working tree.
Use '--' to separate paths from revisions
So put <pattern> before the <rev>s, in accordance with actual correct
usage. While we're changing the usage string, we might as well include
the "--" separating revisions and paths, too.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@uchicago.edu>
---
Thanks!
builtin-grep.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-grep.c b/builtin-grep.c
index 7bf6a71..631129d 100644
--- a/builtin-grep.c
+++ b/builtin-grep.c
@@ -498,7 +498,7 @@ static int grep_object(struct grep_opt *opt, const char **paths,
}
static const char builtin_grep_usage[] =
-"git grep <option>* <rev>* [-e] <pattern> [<path>...]";
+"git grep <option>* [-e] <pattern> <rev>* [[--] <path>...]";
static const char emsg_invalid_context_len[] =
"%s: invalid context length argument";
--
1.5.6.4.441.g4b4e9
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