Jeff King <peff@xxxxxxxx> writes: > System V versions of grep (such as Solaris /usr/bin/grep) > don't understand either of these options. git's usage of It might be fair for other System V people to qualify the above statement with "Historic System V" (personally I felt that Solaris without xpg4 was unusable, and I wish you luck tackling it). More seriously, you would need to disable "when grepping work-tree, running the native grep is faster and just as capable" optimization in builtin-grep.c::grep_cache(). Treat these problematic System V platforms as if they are not __unix__. I am surprised that you did not have issues with "tail -n$number". Historic way to spell it was "tail -$number" wasn't it? -- 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
