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  1. Bug #591233
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 591233

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John A Meinel (jameinel) wrote : Re: [Bug 591233] Re: support -e to specify pattern

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Brian de Alwis wrote:
>> Escaping "-" seems to allows the patterns starting with "-" to be
>> searched.
>
> That's a nifty workaround. I would still recommend adding -e: it's the
> standard mechanism that most Unix savvy non-Pythoners would expect.
>
> BTW: thanks for your work on bzr-grep. It's been far more useful than
> I anticipated.
>

I'm also pretty sure that:

bzr grep -- "-pattern"

Should work just fine. and "--" is the standard "end of option flags"
argument.

I don't really care whether or not it takes '-e'.

John
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