SYNOPSIS
--------
[verse]
-'git-grep' [--cached]
+'git grep' [--cached]
[-a | --text] [-I] [-i | --ignore-case] [-w | --word-regexp]
[-v | --invert-match] [-h|-H] [--full-name]
[-E | --extended-regexp] [-G | --basic-regexp]
[-F | --fixed-strings] [-n]
[-l | --files-with-matches] [-L | --files-without-match]
+ [-z | --null]
[-c | --count] [--all-match]
+ [--color | --no-color]
[-A <post-context>] [-B <pre-context>] [-C <context>]
[-f <file>] [-e] <pattern>
[--and|--or|--not|(|)|-e <pattern>...] [<tree>...]
Instead of searching in the working tree files, check
the blobs registered in the index file.
--a | --text::
+-a::
+--text::
Process binary files as if they were text.
--i | --ignore-case::
+-i::
+--ignore-case::
Ignore case differences between the patterns and the
files.
-I::
Don't match the pattern in binary files.
--w | --word-regexp::
+-w::
+--word-regexp::
Match the pattern only at word boundary (either begin at the
beginning of a line, or preceded by a non-word character; end at
the end of a line or followed by a non-word character).
--v | --invert-match::
+-v::
+--invert-match::
Select non-matching lines.
--h | -H::
+-h::
+-H::
By default, the command shows the filename for each
match. `-h` option is used to suppress this output.
`-H` is there for completeness and does not do anything
option forces paths to be output relative to the project
top directory.
--E | --extended-regexp | -G | --basic-regexp::
+-E::
+--extended-regexp::
+-G::
+--basic-regexp::
Use POSIX extended/basic regexp for patterns. Default
is to use basic regexp.
--F | --fixed-strings::
+-F::
+--fixed-strings::
Use fixed strings for patterns (don't interpret pattern
as a regex).
-n::
Prefix the line number to matching lines.
--l | --files-with-matches | --name-only | -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 compatibility with git-diff, --name-only is a
+ For better compatibility with 'git-diff', --name-only is a
synonym for --files-with-matches.
--c | --count::
+-z::
+--null::
+ Output \0 instead of the character that normally follows a
+ file name.
+
+-c::
+--count::
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.
scripts passing user input to grep. Multiple patterns are
combined by 'or'.
---and | --or | --not | ( | )::
+--and::
+--or::
+--not::
+( ... )::
Specify how multiple patterns are combined using Boolean
expressions. `--or` is the default operator. `--and` has
higher precedence than `--or`. `-e` has to be used for all
GIT
---
-Part of the linkgit:git[7] suite
+Part of the linkgit:git[1] suite