From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 07 Jul 2016 21:21:28 GMT
Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Jul 2016, #02; Wed, 6)
Message-ID: <xmqqshvlnnzb.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20160707204002.GA19138@hashpling.org>

Charles Bailey <charles@hashpling.org> writes:

> I just wanted to clarify what was actually fixed. The actual bug that
> was reported and fixed was the fact that 'git grep' (without --cached)
> wasn't searching the contents of files in the working tree if the index
> entry had the "intent to add" bit set.

Ouch, you are absolutely right.

 Git does not know what the contents in the index should be for a
 path added with "git add -N" yet, so "git grep --cached" should not
 show hits (or show lack of hits, with -L) in such a path, but that
 logic does not apply to "git grep", i.e. searching in the working
 tree files.  But we did so by mistake, which has been corrected.

perhaps?

Thanks.