Teach 'git-grep(1)' a new option, '--column', to show the column
number of the first match on a non-context line.
For example:
$ git grep -n --column foo | head -n3
.clang-format:51:14:# myFunction(foo, bar, baz);
.clang-format:64:7:# int foo();
.clang-format:75:8:# void foo()
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <m...@ttaylorr.com>
---
Documentation/git-grep.txt | 5 ++++-
builtin/grep.c | 1 +
t/t7810-grep.sh | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 18b494731f..5409a24399 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ SYNOPSIS
[-v | --invert-match] [-h|-H] [--full-name]
[-E | --extended-regexp] [-G | --basic-regexp]
[-P | --perl-regexp]
- [-F | --fixed-strings] [-n | --line-number]
+ [-F | --fixed-strings] [-n | --line-number] [--column]
[-l | --files-with-matches] [-L | --files-without-match]
[(-O | --open-files-in-pager) [<pager>]]
[-z | --null]
@@ -169,6 +169,9 @@ providing this option will cause it to die.
--line-number::
Prefix the line number to matching lines.
+--column::
+ Prefix the 1-indexed column number of the first match on non-context
lines.
+
-l::
--files-with-matches::
--name-only::
diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c
index 5f32d2ce84..5c83f17759 100644
--- a/builtin/grep.c
+++ b/builtin/grep.c
@@ -829,6 +829,7 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv, const char
*prefix)
GREP_PATTERN_TYPE_PCRE),
OPT_GROUP(""),
OPT_BOOL('n', "line-number", &opt.linenum, N_("show line
numbers")),
+ OPT_BOOL(0, "column", &opt.columnnum, N_("show column number of
first match")),
OPT_NEGBIT('h', NULL, &opt.pathname, N_("don't show
filenames"), 1),
OPT_BIT('H', NULL, &opt.pathname, N_("show filenames"), 1),
OPT_NEGBIT(0, "full-name", &opt.relative,
diff --git a/t/t7810-grep.sh b/t/t7810-grep.sh
index 1797f632a3..a03c3416e7 100755
--- a/t/t7810-grep.sh
+++ b/t/t7810-grep.sh
@@ -99,6 +99,28 @@ do
test_cmp expected actual
'
+ test_expect_success "grep -w $L (with --column)" '
+ {
+ echo ${HC}file:5:foo mmap bar
+ echo ${HC}file:14:foo_mmap bar mmap
+ echo ${HC}file:5:foo mmap bar_mmap
+ echo ${HC}file:14:foo_mmap bar mmap baz
+ } >expected &&
+ git grep --column -w -e mmap $H >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+ '
+
+ test_expect_success "grep -w $L (with --{line,column}-number)" '
+ {
+ echo ${HC}file:1:5:foo mmap bar
+ echo ${HC}file:3:14:foo_mmap bar mmap
+ echo ${HC}file:4:5:foo mmap bar_mmap
+ echo ${HC}file:5:14:foo_mmap bar mmap baz
+ } >expected &&
+ git grep -n --column -w -e mmap $H >actual &&
+ test_cmp expected actual
+ '
+
test_expect_success "grep -w $L" '
{
echo ${HC}file:1:foo mmap bar
--
2.17.0
