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

Jan Engelhardt [off-list ref] writes:

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

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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..

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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.

I guess our mails crossed.  You don't have to worry about "flag change",
as I don't think there is any change necessary.

You just need to learn:

 (1) "-e" can come before a string to tell git: "this might look like
     an option to you but it isn't; it is what I am looking for"; and

 (2) Everything that follows "--" are pathspecs, not revs nor options.

And all is well.