Thread (2 messages) flat view 2 messages, 2 authors, 2016-06-15

Re: [PATCHv2 7/7] git grep: honor textconv by default

From: Junio C Hamano <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:56:59

Matthieu Moy [off-list ref] writes:
Grepping through the binary, on the other hand, can very well make
sense, like:

$ git grep foo
file.txt: some instance of foo
binary file bar.bin matches
Yes, 

I am moderately negative on making it the default, mostly because it
goes against established expectations, but I did not mean to say
that an ability to pass blob contents through textconv before
running grep should not exist.  It would be a good option to have.
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