Re: git-grep: option parsing conflicts with prefix-dash searches

On Saturday 2010-02-06 00:09, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

What works is (3).

(3)	$ git grep -- -- '->cnt' net/ipv4/netfilter/

No, I spoke too soon. This command will search for --, not ->cnt.
So git cannot search for patterns starting with a dash at all,
as I see it. This is getting fun..

As I said, it's a mess. And I know not whether any code can convince
the "but we need to watch compatibility"-sayers, because this would
definitely be a flag change.