On Thu, Mar 02, 2017 at 05:36:17PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > On Thu, Mar 2, 2017 at 4:52 PM, Thomas Braun > <thomas.braun@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I happen to have quite large binary files in my repos. > > > > Today I realized that a line like > > git log -G a > > searches also files found to be binary (or explicitly marked as binary). > > > > Is that on purpose? > > No, it's a mere oversight (as I do not think I never even thought > about special casing binary > files from day one, it is unlikely that you would find _any_ old > version of Git that behaves > differently). The email focuses on "-G", and I think it is wrong to look in binary files there, as "grep in diff" does not make sense for a binary file that we would refuse to diff. But the subject also mentions "-S". I always assumed it was intentional to look in binary files there, as it is searching for a pure byte sequence. I would not mind an option to disable that, but I think the default should remain on. -Peff