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Date:      Wed, 31 May 2000 10:04:06 +0300
From:      Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/grep grep.c
Message-ID:  <20000531100406.A42042@sunbay.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000530090156.A543@dragon.nuxi.com>; from obrien@FreeBSD.org on Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:01:56AM -0700
References:  <200005301050.DAA85599@freefall.freebsd.org> <20000530090156.A543@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 09:01:56AM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, May 30, 2000 at 03:50:15AM -0700, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> >   Restore backwards compatible -R option.
> >   Broken in revision 1.17.
> 
> Didn't we agree to not add FreeBSD-specific options?  In our last
> communictation with the GNU grep developers, I got the impression we
> would stop using letters that they may use in the future -- thus avoiding
> conflicts like with "-a".
> 
It is you who made both rev 1.15 and 1.17 :-)

GNU maintainers agreed upon supporting both -R and -r for recursive
searching, and promised to include this into the next release.


Cheers,
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