@@ -24,5 +24,5 @@ grep.fullName::
If set to true, enable `--full-name` option by default.
grep.fallbackToNoIndex::
- If set to true, fall back to git grep --no-index if git grep
+ If set to true, fall back to `git grep --no-index` if `git grep`
is executed outside of a git repository. Defaults to false.
@@ -64,9 +64,9 @@ OPTIONS
--recurse-submodules::
Recursively search in each submodule that is active and
checked out in the repository. When used in combination with the
- <tree> option the prefix of all submodule output will be the name of
- the parent project's <tree> object. This option has no effect
- if `--no-index` is given.
+ _<tree>_ option the prefix of all submodule output will be the name of
+ the parent project's _<tree>_ object. This option cannot be used together
+ with `--untracked`, and it has no effect if `--no-index` is specified.
-a::
--text::
@@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ providing this option will cause it to die.
Use \0 as the delimiter for pathnames in the output, and print
them verbatim. Without this option, pathnames with "unusual"
characters are quoted as explained for the configuration
- variable core.quotePath (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
+ variable `core.quotePath` (see linkgit:git-config[1]).
-o::
--only-matching::
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ EXAMPLES
NOTES ON THREADS
----------------
-The `--threads` option (and the grep.threads configuration) will be ignored when
+The `--threads` option (and the `grep.threads` configuration) will be ignored when
`--open-files-in-pager` is used, forcing a single-threaded execution.
When grepping the object store (with `--cached` or giving tree objects), running
Clarify that --recurse-submodules cannot be used together with --untracked, and improve the formatting in a couple of places, to make it visually clear that those are the commands or the names of configuration options. While there, change a couple of "<tree>" placeholders to "_<tree>_", to help with an ongoing translation improvement effort. [1] [1] https://lore.kernel.org/git/CAPig+cQc8W4JOpB+TMP=czketU1U7wcY_x9bsP5T=3-XjGLhRQ@mail.gmail.com/ Signed-off-by: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro.org> --- Notes: This patch is salvaged from my earlier series, [2] for which it has been concluded to be not acceptable for merging, because of possible issues with various git scripts. [3] Compared to the previous version, this version adds some more small formatting improvements of the same kind, and also changes a couple of "<tree>" placeholders to "_<tree>_", as suggested by Eric Sunshine. [1] [2] https://lore.kernel.org/git/cover.1710781235.git.dsimic@manjaro.org/T/#u [3] https://lore.kernel.org/git/d8475579f014a90b27efaf6207bc6fb0@manjaro.org/ Documentation/config/grep.txt | 2 +- Documentation/git-grep.txt | 10 +++++----- 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)