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From: Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Subject: Re: git grep and word boundaries
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 09:56:12 +0100
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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:35:46AM +0200, Thomas Volpini wrote:
>  Hello,
>=20
>  it seems that git grep doesn't do word boundaries as described:
>=20
>  $ 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

--=20
Luciano Rocha <luciano@eurotux.com>
Eurotux Inform=E1tica, S.A. <http://www.eurotux.com/>

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