Re: git grep -I bug

From: Jeremy O'Brien <obrien654j@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 2, 2009, 18:26 UTC
Message-ID: <20090202182601.GA173@Ambelina.local>
In-Reply-To: <7vwsc8hgh4.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 09:54:31AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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> Jeremy O'Brien <obrien654j@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > I am running git version 1.6.1.2.309.g2ea3.
> >
> > When I use
> >
> > git grep -I "string_to_match"
> >
> > to ignore binary files in my grep, binary files are returned anyway.
> 
> One sanity check.  What does 'git grep --cached -I "string_to_match"' do
> in that case?
>

It works as expected. It is interesting that while my Linux install was affected by this bug, my Mac OS X install did not seem to be affected by it, while running the same version of git.