List of patterns file could come from a DOS editor. This is iffy; you may actually be trying to find a line with ^M in it on a system whose line ending is LF. You can of course work it around by having a line that has "^M^M^J", let the strbuf_gets() eat the last "^M^J", leaving just the single "^M" as the pattern. Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> --- builtin/grep.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/builtin/grep.c b/builtin/grep.c index d04f440..ac27690 100644 --- a/builtin/grep.c +++ b/builtin/grep.c @@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ static int file_callback(const struct option *opt, const char *arg, int unset) patterns = from_stdin ? stdin : fopen(arg, "r"); if (!patterns) die_errno(_("cannot open '%s'"), arg); - while (strbuf_getline(&sb, patterns, '\n') == 0) { + while (strbuf_gets(&sb, patterns) == 0) { /* ignore empty line like grep does */ if (sb.len == 0) continue; -- 2.6.2-423-g5314b62 -- 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