Re: [PATCH 8/7] grep: treat revs the same for --untracked as for --no-index
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
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> The rationale for doing this with --no-index is that it is
> meant to be used outside a repository, and so parsing revs
> at all does not make sense.
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> This patch gives --untracked the same treatment. While it
> _is_ meant to be used in a repository, it is explicitly
> about grepping the non-repository contents. Telling the user
> "we found a rev, but you are not allowed to use revs" is
> not really helpful compared to "we treated your argument as
> a path, and could not find it".
Yup, both sounds very sensible. Thanks.