[-F | --fixed-strings] [-n]
[-l | --files-with-matches] [-L | --files-without-match]
[-z | --null]
- [-c | --count] [--all-match]
+ [-c | --count] [--all-match] [-q | --quiet]
+ [--max-depth <depth>]
+ [--color | --no-color]
[-A <post-context>] [-B <pre-context>] [-C <context>]
[-f <file>] [-e] <pattern>
[--and|--or|--not|(|)|-e <pattern>...] [<tree>...]
-I::
Don't match the pattern in binary files.
+--max-depth <depth>::
+ For each pathspec given on command line, descend at most <depth>
+ levels of directories. A negative value means no limit.
+
-w::
--word-regexp::
Match the pattern only at word boundary (either begin at the
--files-without-match::
Instead of showing every matched line, show only the
names of files that contain (or do not contain) matches.
- For better compatibility with 'git-diff', --name-only is a
+ For better compatibility with 'git diff', --name-only is a
synonym for --files-with-matches.
-z::
Instead of showing every matched line, show the number of
lines that match.
+--color::
+ Show colored matches.
+
+--no-color::
+ Turn off match highlighting, even when the configuration file
+ gives the default to color output.
+
-[ABC] <context>::
Show `context` trailing (`A` -- after), or leading (`B`
-- before), or both (`C` -- context) lines, and place a
-<num>::
A shortcut for specifying -C<num>.
+-p::
+--show-function::
+ Show the preceding line that contains the function name of
+ the match, unless the matching line is a function name itself.
+ The name is determined in the same way as 'git diff' works out
+ patch hunk headers (see 'Defining a custom hunk-header' in
+ linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
+
-f <file>::
Read patterns from <file>, one per line.
this flag is specified to limit the match to files that
have lines to match all of them.
+-q::
+--quiet::
+ Do not output matched lines; instead, exit with status 0 when
+ there is a match and with non-zero status when there isn't.
+
`<tree>...`::
Search blobs in the trees for specified patterns.