Re: git grep and word boundaries

From: Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Date: May 27, 2008, 08:56 UTC
Message-ID: <20080527085612.GA31765@bit.office.eurotux.com>
In-Reply-To: <483BC7E2.6090804@gmx.net>

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:35:46AM +0200, Thomas Volpini wrote:

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>  Hello,
> 
>  it seems that git grep doesn't do word boundaries as described:
> 
>  $ cat bar
>  foo bar baz
>  $ grep "\<bar\>" *
>  foo bar baz
>  $ git grep "\<bar\>" *
>  $ git grep -w "\<bar\>" *
>  $ git grep -w "bar" *
>  bar:foo bar baz
>  $ git grep -E "\<bar\>" *
>  $ git grep -E "\bbar\b" *
>  $

It works here. Did you add the file? $ grep "\<bar\>" * foo bar baz $ git grep "\<bar\>" bar:foo bar baz $ git grep "\<bar\>" * bar:foo bar baz $ git grep \\bbar\\b bar:foo bar baz $ git grep \\bbar\\b * bar:foo bar baz

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Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>