Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 26.02.2015 21:59: > Michael J Gruber <git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> So, as a summary of the discussion, it seems it's time to switch the >> default to --textconv for git grep? > > Hmmm, why? > > Nobody seems to be asking for such a change in this thread. The > original issue IIRC was that the grep output was unnecessary for > some paths and the repository did not mark these paths as such. > Once they are marked as "-diff", there is no reason why you want to > trigger textconv to squelch the hits from grep. Of course not. All that I want, and that I wanted back then, was to have diff and grep behave the same. > So that does not sound to me a summary of the discussion at all. > Well, your conditional > I do not recall its conclusion, but it it were "Yes, that is what it > means", then it might be reasonable to: > > - have "git grep" ignore paths marked with -diff by default > (perhaps "-a" option to disable, just like GNU) > > - have "git grep" pay attention to diff.textconv and search in the > result of textconv filter. and Jeff's "Yes" on that condition certainly read like that to me: Make "git grep" react to "diff", "-diff" attributes in the same way as "git diff". But I've set up my alias greppp since then and don't care any more, and I won't invest anything in this topic any more. Michael -- 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