From: Sverre Rabbelier Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 16:04:18 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: -L should show empty files Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vpr5esdbp.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> Heya, On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:56, Junio C Hamano 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