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From: Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: -L should show empty files
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 17:04:18 +0100
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Heya,

On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 07:56, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> It's Ok as the price we pay for producing correct result is to open those
> empty files, read them, and look for matches which we will never find ;-)

I'm not that familiar with the code, but wouldn't it be possible to
keep the early abort, but make it dependent on not using the '-L'
flag?

-- 
Cheers,

Sverre Rabbelier