Subject: Re: file rename causes history to disappear

From: [email-masked] (Randal L. Schwartz)
Date: 06 Sep 2006 14:45:28 -0700

>>>>> "Junio" == Junio C Hamano <[email-masked]> writes:

Junio> The only people who will get burnt by this change are the ones
Junio> with metacharacters in their pathnames, so it is relative safe
Junio> change.

But does that mean you'll provide the equivalent to "fgrep" for "grep",
as in a switch that turns this off, or a seperate command?

I can think of times when I might be trying to track a file with a square
bracket in the name.

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