From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:03:43 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 4/4] grep: obey --textconv for the case rev:path
Message-ID: <7v4nho9f28.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <5113827A.40801@drmicha.warpmail.net>

Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> writes:

>>> (cd t && git grep GET_SHA1_QUIETLY HEAD:../cache.h)
>>> ../HEAD:../cache.h:#define GET_SHA1_QUIETLY        01
>> 
>> Yuck.
>
> And even more yuck:
>
> (cd t && git grep --full-name GET_SHA1_QUIETLY HEAD:../cache.h)
> HEAD:../cache.h:#define GET_SHA1_QUIETLY        01
>
> Someone does not expect a "rev:" to be in there, it seems ;)

I think stepping outside of $(cwd) is an afterthought the code does
not anticipate.