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authorRené Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>2011-08-01 19:20:53 +0200
committerJunio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>2011-08-01 16:09:15 -0700
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grep: add option to show whole function as context
Add a new option, -W, to show the whole surrounding function of a match. It uses the same regular expressions as -p and diff to find the beginning of sections. Currently it will not display comments in front of a function, but those that are following one. Despite this shortcoming it is already useful, e.g. to simply see a more complete applicable context or to extract whole functions. Signed-off-by: Rene Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx> Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
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@@ -172,6 +172,12 @@ OPTIONS
patch hunk headers (see 'Defining a custom hunk-header' in
linkgit:gitattributes[5]).
+-W::
+ Show the surrounding text from the previous line containing a
+ function name up to the one before the next function name,
+ effectively showing the whole function in which the match was
+ found.
+
-f <file>::
Read patterns from <file>, one per line.