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Re: git grep failure?

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WWWayne Walker <lwaynewalker@gmail.com>
Date
Aug 21, 2019, 04:04 UTC
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Please ignore my previous email. I have found what causes the problem. The files that it isn't matching against are symlinks (known to git, but git grep apparently doesn't grep what they point to.

Sorry to have wasted anyone's time.
Wayne Walker
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