The -L (--files-without-match) option is supposed to show paths that
produced no matches. When running the internal grep on work tree files,
however, we had an optimization to just return on zero-sized files,
without doing anything.
This optimization doesn't matter too much in practice (a tracked empty
file must be rare, or there is something wrong with your project); to
produce results consistent with GNU grep, we should stop the optimization
and show empty files as not having the given pattern.
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <redacted>
---
* Fix for a longstanding bug meant for maint.
builtin-grep.c | 2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/builtin-grep.c b/builtin-grep.c
index fd450bc..84a5af3 100644
--- a/builtin-grep.c
+++ b/builtin-grep.c
@@ -159,8 +159,6 @@ static int grep_file(struct grep_opt *opt, const char *filename)
error("'%s': %s", filename, strerror(errno));
return 0;
}
- if (!st.st_size)
- return 0; /* empty file -- no grep hit */
if (!S_ISREG(st.st_mode))
return 0;
sz = xsize_t(st.st_size);--
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