Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx> writes: > On Sun, 14 May 2006, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> I am not either after seeing your numbers and trying them >> myself. I was going to look at it myself over the weekend, but >> I ended up spending most of the time migrating my environment, >> so no progress on that front yet. Sorry. > > I was looking at it, and I just suspect that "grep" is very optimized. > > At the same time, the built-in one had many good features, notably that > you could grep the cached copy and from a specific version. So I think it > makes sense. > > ... Except for testing, and fixing my stupid bugs, which > I'm too lazy to do. The command line flags needs to be unparsed before feeding the external grep. > The whole "exec_grep()" should basically be the same as "spawn_prog()". > You get the idea. > > Anybody? I think somebody wanted to have his own funky grep spawned off from his PATH, so I'd leave that to him (or her I do not remember which) ;-). - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html