Re: grep --no-index and pathspec

Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

"grep --no-index" and "grep" have different codepaths for looking up the
files/blobs. If I read that correctly then "grep --no-index -- pathspec"
only does a literal match at the left boundary, whereas for the normal
mode glob patterns are allowed.

CC'ing Junio who created "--no-index".

Anything with --no-index is a quick hack, so I wouldn't be surprised if it
ignored the normal pathspec logic.  As I do not recall the details of the
particular codepath and offhand do not know how involved a change to pay
proper attention to the pathspecs would be, but I suspect that it would be
more appropriate to fix it on top of nd/struct-pathspec topic than writing
the current behaviour down in the documentation outside of BUGS section as
if it were a feature ;-).