Re: Improve "git grep" flags handling

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Sep 12, 2005, 22:43 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509121542050.3266@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <7vd5nd7w0x.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Junio C Hamano wrote:

> 
> This would not fly well, I am afraid.  --exclude=* are usually
> shell globs which would be expanded before you use them
> unquoted.

Good point. However, since it's unlikely that anybody will use it, maybe it's not important - more of a "this is how you could do it if you fixed the globbing problem" ;)

It's easy enough to fix if you use bash array variables, but I thought adding that was not supposed to be done? Or have people resigned themselves to bash extensions ;)

		Linus