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From: Thomas Volpini <tvolpini@gmx.net>
Subject: git grep and word boundaries
Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 10:35:46 +0200
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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