git-grep: fix 'git grep -e $pattern' handling
authorJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:09:48 +0000 (15:09 -0700)
committerJunio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Sat, 24 Sep 2005 22:09:48 +0000 (15:09 -0700)
People typically say 'grep -e $pattern' because $pattern has a leading
dash which would be mistaken as a grep flag. Make sure we pass -e in
front of $pattern when we invoke grep.

Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
git-grep.sh
index 51924fd7c38a4fd70f59069a3eecbfe787626375..e7a35ebd707c6ef485a26f4e1ece57fa248e0106 100755 (executable)
@@ -40,4 +40,4 @@ while : ; do
        shift
 done
 git-ls-files -z "${git_flags[@]}" "$@" |
-       xargs -0 grep "${flags[@]}" "$pattern"
+       xargs -0 grep "${flags[@]}" -e "$pattern"