From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 19:35:16 GMT
Subject: Re: `git grep` is too picky about option parsing
Message-ID: <xmqqtusx9zpn.fsf@gitster.c.googlers.com>
In-Reply-To: <X856rSHziQcmr/zX@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> would be sad to lose it. (I don't use it with grep, but my standard perl
> invocation is "perl -lpe 'some script'"; another common one is "tar xvf
> foo.tar").

Heh, "tar" is a different breed, isn't it?  It can have a clump of
single letter options among which more than one take parameter.

> And it works now (obviously not in the case we're discussing, but in
> other cases that don't run afoul of the typo fix), so I think people
> would see that as a regression.

Sure.