Re: git grep '(' = segfault

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On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Something like this should fix it.
>
>                Linus

(Sorry that you're getting this mail twice, Linus - I forgot to reply all)

This does indeed fix the crash, but I find the resulting operation
quite bizarre. I'm getting a "fatal: unmatched paranthesis", however
"git grep '(('" is happy to simply grep for the double parenthesis.
Now, if I had done "git grep '\('", I'd expect an unmatched
parenthesis-error... Am I misunderstanding something here?

$ git grep '('
fatal: unmatched parenthesis

$ git grep '(('
Documentation/CodingGuidelines: - We use Arithmetic Expansion $(( ... )).
[...]

$ git grep '\('
fatal: command line, '\(': Unmatched ( or \(

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Erik "kusma" Faye-Lund
kusmabite@xxxxxxxxx
(+47) 986 59 656
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