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

Jeff King [off-list ref] writes:

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 08:53:36PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:

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  git grep -- pattern revision -- pathname

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I don't think if "ambiguous or not" is what we are after to begin with.

I have known GNU extended grep implementations long enough but never saw
that "--" used to quote a pattern.  Is it worth supporting to begin with?

I think so. It was the first thing the original poster in this thread
tried. It is also something I have tried (and still do, then grumblingly
retype "-e pattern"). And it certainly makes sense from a user
perspective; it is the same end-of-options signal that most other
programs take.

Ok, then let's take that (perhaps before 1.7.0 perhaps after).