git grep and word boundaries

git grep and word boundaries

[Thomas Volpini]

Hello,

it seems that git grep doesn't do word boundaries as described:

$ cat bar
foo bar baz
$ grep "\<bar\>" *
foo bar baz
$ git grep "\<bar\>" *
$ git grep -w "\<bar\>" *
$ git grep -w "bar" *
bar:foo bar baz
$ git grep -E "\<bar\>" *
$ git grep -E "\bbar\b" *
$

thanks,
Thomas

Re: git grep and word boundaries

[Luciano Rocha]

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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:35:46AM +0200, Thomas Volpini wrote:
>  Hello,
> 
>  it seems that git grep doesn't do word boundaries as described:
> 
>  $ cat bar
>  foo bar baz
>  $ grep "\<bar\>" *
>  foo bar baz
>  $ git grep "\<bar\>" *
>  $ git grep -w "\<bar\>" *
>  $ git grep -w "bar" *
>  bar:foo bar baz
>  $ git grep -E "\<bar\>" *
>  $ git grep -E "\bbar\b" *
>  $

It works here. Did you add the file?
$ grep "\<bar\>" *
foo bar baz
$ git grep "\<bar\>"
bar:foo bar baz
$ git grep "\<bar\>" *
bar:foo bar baz
$ git grep \\bbar\\b
bar:foo bar baz
$ git grep \\bbar\\b *
bar:foo bar baz

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Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Informática, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>

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