Please update grep in the Windows Git distro

Please update grep in the Windows Git distro

[Tom Byrer]

Seems that grep.exe is too outdated for some scripts:
https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/75#issuecomment-13735767

Updating to a newer grep distro fixes the problem:
https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/75#issuecomment-29054164

Seems other OSX & Linux don't have problems with the same scripts.

If the grep for the Git for Windows could be updated next, that would
be helpful.

cheers

Re: Please update grep in the Windows Git distro

[Jonathan Nieder]

(cc-ing the msysgit@ group, which maintains Git for Windows)
Hi,

Tom Byrer wrote:

> Seems that grep.exe is too outdated for some scripts:
> https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/75#issuecomment-13735767
>
> Updating to a newer grep distro fixes the problem:
> https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/75#issuecomment-29054164

If you have time for it, your best bet is to contribute this change by
forking msysgit.git on GitHub.

See
 https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki#how-to-participate
 https://github.com/msysgit/msysgit/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#i-want-to-upgrade-perl-how-do-i-do-that
for hints.  (Short answer: the usual way would be to add a
/src/grep/release.sh script that builds and installs 'grep', imitating
others /src/*/release.sh scripts, to make it easy to keep grep.exe up
to date in the future.)

Thanks for your interest, and hope that helps,
Jonathan

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Re: Please update grep in the Windows Git distro

[Antoine Pelisse]

On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 8:36 PM, Tom Byrer <tombyrer@gmail.com> wrote:
> Seems that grep.exe is too outdated for some scripts:
> https://github.com/creationix/nvm/issues/75#issuecomment-13735767

-o is not an option of POSIX grep [1] and you should probably not rely
on it for portable script.

[1]: http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/grep.html