From: Linus Torvalds Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 19:42:53 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] builtin-grep: workaround for non GNU grep. Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vodxwcwa1.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net> On Wed, 17 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > This makes -c misbehave in a subtle way. > > git grep -c -e no-such-string-anywhere | head -n 1 > > But I do not think we care. Ahh, yes. That appears to be unfixable without using special GNU extensions. I agree that we probably don't care, though. Linus