Re: Please update grep in the Windows Git distro

From: Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>
Date: Dec 2, 2013, 19:59 UTC
Message-ID: <20131202195951.GA29959@google.com>
In-Reply-To: <CACAE+cGBvwVRjm8=-3e+w_xQozP1nfsphK4-ndky2yZoCoMjxw@mail.gmail.com>

(cc-ing the msysgit@ group, which maintains Git for Windows) Hi,

Tom Byrer wrote:

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> Seems that grep.exe is too outdated for some scripts:
> https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/75#issuecomment-13735767
>
> Updating to a newer grep distro fixes the problem:
> https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/75#issuecomment-29054164

If you have time for it, your best bet is to contribute this change by forking msysgit.git on GitHub.

See
 https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki#how-to-participate
 https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#i-want-to-upgrade-perl-how-do-i-do-that
for hints.  (Short answer: the usual way would be to add a
/src/grep/release.sh script that builds and installs 'grep', imitating
others /src/*/release.sh scripts, to make it easy to keep grep.exe up
to date in the future.)

Thanks for your interest, and hope that helps, Jonathan

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