From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 06:56:10 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: -L should show empty files
Message-ID: <7vpr5esdbp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e1001121327s392f7311t2a7f11081ed70ff8@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

> Heya,
>
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:32, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> This optimization doesn't matter too much in practice (a tracked empty
>> file must be rare, or there is something wrong with your project);
>
> How about python projects, where there's an __init__.py file
> everywhere you turn your head? ;)

It's Ok as the price we pay for producing correct result is to open those
empty files, read them, and look for matches which we will never find ;-)