Re: [PATCH] grep: -L should show empty files

From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 13, 2010, 16:04 UTC
Message-ID: <fabb9a1e1001130804s4716587l57d56884b5d0d068@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <7vpr5esdbp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

Heya,

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:56, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:

> It's Ok as the price we pay for producing correct result is to open those
> empty files, read them, and look for matches which we will never find ;-)

I'm not that familiar with the code, but wouldn't it be possible to keep the early abort, but make it dependent on not using the '-L' flag?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier

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