Re: git-grep: option parsing conflicts with prefix-dash searches

From: Santi Béjar <santi@agolina.net>
Date: Feb 5, 2010, 23:27 UTC
Message-ID: <adf1fd3d1002051527j72fd302byc85a2f0980ce9998@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1002060009430.30204@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wrote:

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> On Saturday 2010-02-06 00:09, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
>>What works is (3).
>>
>>(3)    $ git grep -- -- '->cnt' net/ipv4/netfilter/
>
> No, I spoke too soon. This command will search for --, not ->cnt.
> So git cannot search for patterns starting with a dash at all,
> as I see it. This is getting fun..

You should use -e:

     -e
           The next parameter is the pattern. This option has to be
used for patterns starting with - and should be used in scripts
passing user input to grep.

The working command is:

$ git grep -e '->cnt' net/ipv4/netfilter/

Although there is not such pattern in net/ipv4/netfilter, maybe you wanted '->counters' :-)

HTH, Santi