Re: [PATCH] grep: fix grepping for "intent to add" files

> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 05:57:18PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote:
>>
>> "git grep --cached" searches file content that will be committed by
>> "git commit" (no -a). An i-t-a entry will not be committed (you would
>> need "git add" first, or do "git commit -a"). So if I say "search
>> among the to-be-committed file content, list files that do not match
>> abc" (git grep -l -v --cached abc), the i-t-a entry will show up
>> because its fake content is empty (i.e. not contain "abc"), even
>> though it's not in the "to-be-committed" list. So yeah, correctness
>> issue.
>
> OK, I think there is an issue there but it's not with "-l -v --cached"
> but rather with "-L --cached". If my understanding is correct, "-l -v"
> means "has a line that doesn't match" whereas "-L" means "has no line
> that matches".
>
> Does this sound correct? I'll try adding a new test.