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.