Re: git-grep: option parsing conflicts with prefix-dash searches

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 6, 2010, 17:39 UTC
Message-ID: <7v8wb64623.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100206115817.GA11605@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 08:53:36PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> >   git grep -- pattern revision -- pathname
>> [...]
>> I don't think if "ambiguous or not" is what we are after to begin with.
>> 
>> I have known GNU extended grep implementations long enough but never saw
>> that "--" used to quote a pattern.  Is it worth supporting to begin with?
>
> I think so. It was the first thing the original poster in this thread
> tried. It is also something I have tried (and still do, then grumblingly
> retype "-e pattern"). And it certainly makes sense from a user
> perspective; it is the same end-of-options signal that most other
> programs take.

Ok, then let's take that (perhaps before 1.7.0 perhaps after).