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Subject: Re: git-grep: option parsing conflicts with prefix-dash searches
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On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:17 AM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> wr=
ote:
> On Saturday 2010-02-06 00:09, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>
>>What works is (3).
>>
>>(3) =A0 =A0$ git grep -- -- '->cnt' net/ipv4/netfilter/
>
> No, I spoke too soon. This command will search for --, not ->cnt.
> So git cannot search for patterns starting with a dash at all,
> as I see it. This is getting fun..

You should use -e:

     -e
           The next parameter is the pattern. This option has to be
used for patterns starting with - and should be used in scripts
passing user input to grep.

The working command is:

$ git grep -e '->cnt' net/ipv4/netfilter/

Although there is not such pattern in net/ipv4/netfilter, maybe you
wanted '->counters' :-)

HTH,
Santi