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git grep -F (fixed string) requires matching parenthesis?

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Nnanaya <edho@fastmail.com>
Date
Aug 13, 2019, 06:01 UTC
Message-ID
<35477812-7889-4f32-85ac-d3da4e7ff902@www.fastmail.com>
Hi,
I observed this today:

$ git grep -F '(' fatal: unmatched parenthesis

Which doesn't make sense and I believe shouldn't happen.

$ git --version git version 2.22.0

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