From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.7 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B809C4361B for ; Mon, 7 Dec 2020 19:36:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B75C238A1 for ; Mon, 7 Dec 2020 19:36:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1726695AbgLGTgE (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2020 14:36:04 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp21.pobox.com ([173.228.157.53]:62927 "EHLO pb-smtp21.pobox.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1725814AbgLGTgE (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Dec 2020 14:36:04 -0500 Received: from pb-smtp21.pobox.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E08CAFE5FB; Mon, 7 Dec 2020 14:35:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; s=sasl; bh=C//V85sWwowxN4BECuD2VU7v2js=; b=wQXZUu t4HF+BH/+mGw3NTMVkIETf4nw3MTW2OB7WTSwCF8grOnD6uCkFlv3OgwLtxF8hms t07q8z6Is9f5Tt86pwdQnrrLuA4P+B/h8JvXyuZlgLJYa35Y0NRjER2yy0jaarOm JngJPiMN9l2m/TfGooUmFCqL+ktc7/ImvdgO0= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=pobox.com; h=from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:mime-version :content-type; q=dns; s=sasl; b=e9DRKypS8MuTqeTO1RW1/CGf9WLqXl9C vM6OtLkl4o+WaB+CdmvXs5XWyObuX4LfkVE4gpJmSdowwwtD+t2XEFjhlLzoFGOq DUc+PlNpLs7a7CtRJofwAhmH0WoXu0eypJ8m6alkbmlYkItCYbmWOk1ms5pMmC5Q jJL74HkOKuQ= Received: from pb-smtp21.sea.icgroup.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D801AFE5FA; Mon, 7 Dec 2020 14:35:21 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) Received: from pobox.com (unknown [34.74.119.39]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pb-smtp21.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id CEA06FE5F4; Mon, 7 Dec 2020 14:35:17 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from junio@pobox.com) From: Junio C Hamano To: Jeff King Cc: Jan Engelhardt , git@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: `git grep` is too picky about option parsing References: <704q5rs6-63q1-sp78-9845-227oq8q42o8q@vanv.qr> Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2020 11:35:16 -0800 In-Reply-To: (Jeff King's message of "Mon, 7 Dec 2020 13:55:41 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Pobox-Relay-ID: 5610443A-38C3-11EB-BE3F-D609E328BF65-77302942!pb-smtp21.pobox.com Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Jeff King writes: > would be sad to lose it. (I don't use it with grep, but my standard perl > invocation is "perl -lpe 'some script'"; another common one is "tar xvf > foo.tar"). Heh, "tar" is a different breed, isn't it? It can have a clump of single letter options among which more than one take parameter. > And it works now (obviously not in the case we're discussing, but in > other cases that don't run afoul of the typo fix), so I think people > would see that as a regression. Sure.