From: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 23:17:49 GMT
Subject: Re: git-grep: option parsing conflicts with prefix-dash searches
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1002060009430.30204@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.01.1002052351060.30204@obet.zrqbmnf.qr>

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..

>As I said, it's a mess. And I know not whether any code can convince
>the "but we need to watch compatibility"-sayers, because this would
>definitely be a flag change.