From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 21:58:59 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/7] grep: treat revs the same for --untracked as for --no-index
Message-ID: <xmqqziho77to.fsf@gitster.mtv.corp.google.com>
In-Reply-To: <20170214215436.kqca4c7gv2kwevw7@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> ...
> 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.
>
> 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.