Signed-off-by: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@xxxxxxx> --- I did not find another way to use patterns starting with -, if it is possible without the patch please tell me and ignore the patch :) example: % git grep -- --bla HEAD HEAD~1 -- --foo HEAD:--foo/bla:test --bla foo builtin-grep.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/builtin-grep.c b/builtin-grep.c index 2e7986c..d0677cc 100644 --- a/builtin-grep.c +++ b/builtin-grep.c @@ -817,8 +817,13 @@ int cmd_grep(int argc, const char **argv } usage(builtin_grep_usage); } - if (!strcmp("--", arg)) + if (!strcmp("--", arg)) { + if (!opt.pattern_list && argc > 0) { + argc--; argv++; + add_pattern(&opt, *argv, "command line", 0); + } break; + } if (*arg == '-') usage(builtin_grep_usage); -- 1.4.1.rc1.g29f4a-dirty - : 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