Re: [PATCH 2/2] grep: use slash for path delimiter, not colon

[Phil Hord <phil.hord@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Jeff King <peff@peff.net> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 26, 2013 at 10:13:14PM +0200, Johannes Sixt wrote:
>
>> Am 26.08.2013 21:56, schrieb Jeff King:
>> > Also, prevent the delimiter being added twice, as happens now in these
>> > examples:
>> >
>> >   git grep -l foo HEAD:
>> >   HEAD::some/path/to/foo.txt
>> >        ^
>>
>> Which one of these two does it print then?
>>
>>     HEAD:/some/path/to/foo.txt
>>     HEAD:some/path/to/foo.txt
>
> It should (and does) print the latter.
>
> But I do note that our pathspec handling for subdirectories seems buggy.
> If you do:
>
>   $ cd Documentation
>   $ git grep -l foo | head -1
>   RelNotes/1.5.1.5.txt
>
> that's fine; we limit to the current directory. But then if you do:
>
>   $ git grep -l foo HEAD | head -1
>   HEAD:RelNotes/1.5.1.5.txt
>
> we still limit to the current directory, but the output does not note
> this (it should be "HEAD:./RelNotes/1.5.1.5.txt"). I think this bug is
> orthogonal to Phil's patch, though.

Maybe not.  My path completes the assumption that the L:R value
returned by grep is an object ref; but Junio still thought it wasn't.
I think this is another case where his view was correct.

There's more bad news on this front.

    $ cd Documentation
    $ git grep -l foo HEAD .. | head -1
    HEAD:../.gitignore

That's not a valid ref, either (though maybe it could be).

Phil