Re: Making git grep ignore binary the default

> El_Hoy <eloyesp@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> I've found that there is a flag (`git grep -I`) to ignore binary
>> files, it works great, but I've found no way to make it the default.
>>
>> It would be great to have a config for this. This way a possible
>> implementation implies:
>>
>> - Adding a config `grep.ignoreBinary` that defaults to false, keeping
>> the current default.
>>
>> - Adding a flag `git grep --include-binary` to revert the default. But
>> maybe the `-a, --text` flag already does that.
>>
>> Also, maybe the next git version (3.0) can default to ignore-binary as
>> a better default.
> I am tempted to suggest not to do any of the above.
>
> Simply because we have never needed to do something similar to "-a"
> and "-I" that we added in early 2006 for the past nearly 20 years.
> Also because GNU does not have any such thing to force "-a" or "-I"
> as default.  The biggest reason is that it would be surprising if
> such a change does not break existing scripts that have been written
> by people over the years.