Junio C Hamano wrote: > Phil Hord <phil.hord@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 9:35 PM, Phil Hord <hordp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> When the pathspec given to grep includes a tree name, the full >>> name of matched files is assembled using colon as a separator. >>> If the pathspec includes a tree name, it should use a slash >>> instead. [...] >> If the tree name includes an object name, as in >> HEAD:some/path, it should use a slash instead. > > What problem are you trying to solve? It should use HEAD:some/path, > not HEAD/some/path. I think Phil meant that when "git grep" is asked to search within "HEAD:some/path", filenames tacked on at the end should be appended with a '/' separator instead of the usual ':' (e.g., "HEAD:some/path/inner/path.c", not "HEAD:some/path:inner/path.c"). Otherwise I cannot copy and paste "git grep" output and get something suitable for passing to "git show". I don't think we have a standard name for the tree:path syntax. I've always just called it tree:path syntax. :) Hope that helps, Jonathan -- 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