On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

It is not quite clear if I can follow this instruction myself,
without knowing what a "plain guarded 'grep'" is, unfortunately.  Is
it different from bog-standard grep?

I agree with you that the word "guarded" is really confusing here
after reading it
again. The suggestion should just be to use "plain `grep`" with no mention of a
guard. Will remove it.

My original intent was something along the lines of "guarded against BUG'ing
on missing file", but the wording is confusing and, worse, could encourage the
anti-pattern of using grep to test for file existence.