From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:55:02 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 7/7] git grep: honor textconv by default
Message-ID: <7v38ufdaih.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <vpqwqrrolpl.fsf@grenoble-inp.fr>

Matthieu Moy <Matthieu.Moy@grenoble-inp.fr> writes:

> Grepping through the binary, on the other hand, can very well make
> sense, like:
>
> $ git grep foo
> file.txt: some instance of foo
> binary file bar.bin matches

Yes, 

I am moderately negative on making it the default, mostly because it
goes against established expectations, but I did not mean to say
that an ability to pass blob contents through textconv before
running grep should not exist.  It would be a good option to have.