grep: support newline separated pattern list

[thirdparty/git.git] / Documentation / git-grep.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index e150c77cffb5d082822bd65c7bfbeb1f431fc42f..c3306f3a3b855318397e8d7f4174943f589eeb3e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,9 @@ SYNOPSIS
 DESCRIPTION
 -----------
 Look for specified patterns in the tracked files in the work tree, blobs
-registered in the index file, or blobs in given tree objects.
+registered in the index file, or blobs in given tree objects.  Patterns
+are lists of one or more search expressions separated by newline
+characters.  An empty string as search expression matches all lines.
 
 
 CONFIGURATION