Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belon <carenas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> if GREP_OPTIONS is set and includes -H, using `grep -c` will fail >> to generate a numeric count and result in the following error : >> >> /usr/libexec/git-core/git-rebase--interactive: line 110: (standard >> input):1+(standard input):0: missing `)' (error token is >> "input):1+(standard input):0") >> >> instead of grep counting use `wc -l` to return the line count. > > Thanks. > > How does your patch help when the user has GREP_OPTIONS=-C3 in the > environment? > > I think a saner workaround for this user environment bug (or GNU grep > misfeature) is to unset GREP_OPTIONS at the beginning of the script, or > even in git-sh-setup. Or even this. git.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/git.c b/git.c index 0b22595..3548154 100644 --- a/git.c +++ b/git.c @@ -450,11 +450,24 @@ static int run_argv(int *argcp, const char ***argv) return done_alias; } +static void sanitize_env(void) { + static const char *vars[] = { + "GREP_OPTIONS", + "GREP_COLOR", + "GREP_COLORS", + NULL, + }; + const char **p; + + for (p = vars; *p; p++) + unsetenv(*p); +} int main(int argc, const char **argv) { const char *cmd; + sanitize_env(); cmd = git_extract_argv0_path(argv[0]); if (!cmd) cmd = "git-help"; -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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