On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 5:02 AM, Dylan Grafmyre <dylang@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > In both ubuntu versions of git 1.9.1 and 2.7.0 > > git grep '-test' > git grep '--help' (Un)Quoting is done by shell and stripped out before "git" is executed. We just don't see them. > Or any other expressions literal leading with a single dash or double > dash get interpreted as argument flags and not as search expressions. > > What I expect is grep results for the literal strings "-test" and "--help" > What i get is git help output informing of wrong argument usage, or > accidentally turning on flags I didn't expect. > > Work around; for afflicted users terminating argument parsing with ` > -- ` works as it should. > > git grep -- '-test' Or you can do "git grep -e --test". UNIX grep faces the same problem, and also has -e to deal with it. > Confirmed on two Ubuntu [based] systems, Ubuntu Server 14.03 and > LinuxMint 17.3 [Cinnamon] -- Duy -- 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