Re: git grep '(' = segfault

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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>

Date

Apr 27, 2009, 23:18 UTC

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Erik Faye-Lund <kusmabite@googlemail.com> writes:

> Yeah, thanks for explaining. But isn't this functionality kind of
> redundant since we have the -E switch?
> As far as I can see, "git grep -E "(bar|boz)" should do the same thing
> as "git grep -e foo --and '(' -e bar --or -e boz ')'"...

With -E, --or is not strictly necessary.