[-E | --extended-regexp] [-G | --basic-regexp]
[-F | --fixed-strings] [-n]
[-l | --files-with-matches] [-L | --files-without-match]
- [-O | --open-files-in-pager]
+ [(-O | --open-files-in-pager) [<pager>]]
[-z | --null]
[-c | --count] [--all-match] [-q | --quiet]
[--max-depth <depth>]
For better compatibility with 'git diff', `--name-only` is a
synonym for `--files-with-matches`.
--O::
---open-files-in-pager::
+-O [<pager>]::
+--open-files-in-pager [<pager>]::
Open the matching files in the pager (not the output of 'grep').
If the pager happens to be "less" or "vi", and the user
specified only one pattern, the first file is positioned at
Examples
--------
-git grep 'time_t' -- '*.[ch]'::
+git grep {apostrophe}time_t{apostrophe} \-- {apostrophe}*.[ch]{apostrophe}::
Looks for `time_t` in all tracked .c and .h files in the working
directory and its subdirectories.
-git grep -e \'#define\' --and \( -e MAX_PATH -e PATH_MAX \)::
+git grep -e {apostrophe}#define{apostrophe} --and \( -e MAX_PATH -e PATH_MAX \)::
Looks for a line that has `#define` and either `MAX_PATH` or
`PATH_MAX`.