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Date:      Sun, 9 Feb 2003 17:29:57 -0500
From:      Garrett Rooney <rooneg@electricjellyfish.net>
To:        Roman Neuhauser <neuhauser@bellavista.cz>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: replacing GNU grep with UNIX grep.
Message-ID:  <049E47F2-3C7E-11D7-8601-000393CE23F4@electricjellyfish.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030209221232.GP393@freepuppy.bellavista.cz>

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On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 05:12 PM, Roman Neuhauser wrote:

> # des@ofug.org / 2003-02-03 13:20:04 +0100:
>> Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> writes:
>>> Also the GNU grep has a lot more options, the most interesting
>>> of them being -r.
>>
>> Unfortunately, GNU grep's -r option is broken (it does not handle
>> symnlinks correctly).  Try textproc/freegrep from ports instead.
>
>     I believe the Subversion team has a BSD-like-licensed grep library.

no, we don't.  we have a BSD-like-licensed diff library that's coming 
along nicely, and hopefully will replace gnu diff/diff3 in subversion 
fairly soon, but not grep.

-garrett


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