From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 23:17:23 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] git-sh-setup: remove "sane_grep", it's not needed anymore
Message-ID: <xmqqwnm6ge7w.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <patch-6.6-556fa96dde7-20211021T195538Z-avarab@gmail.com>

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason  <avarab@gmail.com> writes:

> 2. The SANE_TEXT_GREP added in 71b401032b9 (sane_grep: pass "-a" if
>    grep accepts it, 2016-03-08) isn't needed either, none of these grep
>    uses deal with binary data.

For all other users, I think the above applies well, but the one in
filter-branch deals with end-user contents, so we cannot say
"contents of the tag cannot be binary".

Not that I care about filter-branch too deeply ;-)