From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 19:48:38 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: -L should show empty files
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In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1001130804s4716587l57d56884b5d0d068@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

> I'm not that familiar with the code, but wouldn't it be possible to
> keep the early abort, but make it dependent on not using the '-L'
> flag?

Anything codable is possible to code, but my point was I don't think such
an optimization to avoid reading empty files is worth the time to write
and maintain extra code necessary for it.