On Thu, Jul 07, 2016 at 02:21:28PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Charles Bailey <char...@hashpling.org> writes: > > > I just wanted to clarify what was actually fixed. The actual bug that > > was reported and fixed was the fact that 'git grep' (without --cached) > > wasn't searching the contents of files in the working tree if the index > > entry had the "intent to add" bit set. > > Ouch, you are absolutely right. > > Git does not know what the contents in the index should be for a > path added with "git add -N" yet, so "git grep --cached" should not > show hits (or show lack of hits, with -L) in such a path, but that > logic does not apply to "git grep", i.e. searching in the working > tree files. But we did so by mistake, which has been corrected. > > perhaps?
Yes, that reads like an accurate summary to me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
