From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 04:30:43 GMT
Subject: Re: git grep -I bug
Message-ID: <7v1vugf8gc.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090202182601.GA173@Ambelina.local>

Jeremy O'Brien <obrien654j@gmail.com> writes:

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

Perhaps your Mac OSX binary was built without external grep support.

Did the patch fix the issue, by the way?