Re: Bug report: git grep seems to use the wrong .gitattributes when invoked in a subdirectory

From: René Scharfe <rene.scharfe@lsrfire.ath.cx>
Date: May 23, 2013, 15:49 UTC
Message-ID: <519E3A8F.9070600@lsrfire.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <CAK=EYX51G57borL_Hy2XzqJVML4wmAgOCBPwFLa+miDDY30O7Q@mail.gmail.com>

Am 23.05.2013 14:44, schrieb Joel Kaasinen:

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> [pseudo:~/tmp]% git --version
> git version 1.7.10.4
> [pseudo:~/tmp]% git init git-test
> Initialized empty Git repository in/home/opqdonut/tmp/git-test/.git/
> [pseudo:~/tmp]% cd git-test
> [pseudo:~/tmp/git-test:master()]% mkdir -p a/data
> [pseudo:~/tmp/git-test:master()]% mkdir data
> [pseudo:~/tmp/git-test:master()]% echo '* binary' > data/.gitattributes
> [pseudo:~/tmp/git-test:master()]% echo foo > a/data/foo
> [pseudo:~/tmp/git-test:master()]% git add -A
> [pseudo:~/tmp/git-test:master()]% git commit -m "foo"
> [master (root-commit) 20fafbb] foo
>   2 files changed, 1 insertion(+)
>   create mode 100644 a/data/foo
>   create mode 100644 data/.gitattributes
> [pseudo:~/tmp/git-test:master()]% git grep foo
> a/data/foo:foo
> [pseudo:~/tmp/git-test:master()]% cd a
> [pseudo:~/tmp/git-test/a:master()]% git grep foo
> Binary file data/foo matches

Just checked, with git 1.8.2.3 the last command shows a matching line.

The issue has probably been fixed by 55c6168 (grep: stop looking at random places for .gitattributes). The lowest release with that patch is git 1.8.0.1.

René