From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-grep: option parsing conflicts with prefix-dash searches
Date: Sat, 06 Feb 2010 17:17:31 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mxzmsrqc.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7v7hqrdkxb.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> (Junio C. Hamano's message of "Fri, 05 Feb 2010 20:53:36 -0800")
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> I have known GNU extended grep implementations long enough but never saw
> that "--" used to quote a pattern. Is it worth supporting to begin with?
Well, it is a natural consequence of the way command-line parsing works
in typical GNU progs; "--" doesn't mean "files follow", it means "no
more options"....
-Miles
--
I'd rather be consing.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-06 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-05 23:09 git-grep: option parsing conflicts with prefix-dash searches Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-05 23:17 ` Jan Engelhardt
2010-02-05 23:27 ` Santi Béjar
2010-02-05 23:34 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-05 23:31 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-06 3:51 ` Jeff King
2010-02-06 4:53 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-06 8:17 ` Miles Bader [this message]
2010-02-06 11:58 ` Jeff King
2010-02-06 17:39 ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-07 4:44 ` Jeff King
2010-02-08 1:06 ` Junio C Hamano
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