grep-merges(1)

📦 version 0.215, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu questing, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

✨ grep-merges(1) — the manual, but make it slay ✨

okay so bestie, you found the manual page for grep-merges, living in the General Commands Manual section (that's section 1, for the uninitiated 💅). Buckle up, it's short but it's iconic.

🌸 NAME 🌸

grep-merges — go hunt down the outstanding merges from Debian 🦋

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

grep-merges [string]

that's it. that's the whole vibe. one optional lil string and you're off 🫶

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

grep-merges goes and rummages around merges.ubuntu.com looking for pending merges from Debian. no cap, that's literally its whole job 🔥

so here's the tea: if you hand it a string, it will list all the merges whose:

  • source package name contains that string, or
  • last changelog author contains that string, or
  • last uploader contains that string 👑

and if you give it nothing at all? no string, no filter, it just lists every single merge. all of them. the whole buffet 🍓

✨ EXAMPLES ✨

like, watch her work:

$ grep-merges cjwatson
tzsetup Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>
console-setup   Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>

see how it pulled both of those? that's the string match doing its thing, matching on the author/uploader field. ate. 💅

👑 AUTHOR 👑

grep-merges and this very manual page were written by Colin Watson <cjwatson@ubuntu.com>. give them their flowers 💐

both of them — the tool and the manual — are released under the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 3 or (at your option) any later version. so like, share the love, legally 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie. this came to you from the ubuntu-dev-tools package, dated December 15, 2010 — vintage, honestly. periodt. 💖✨

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