Paolo Bonzini wrote: > On 04/03/2010 08:25 AM, Jim Meyering wrote: >> While uses like grep -Fw '' (explicit empty string) are probably very >> rare, using grep -Fw -f KEYWORD_FILE with blank lines in that file is >> much more plausible, and this fix would cause a big behavior change. >> With the fix, grep will now match all blank lines in the input. > > Shall we branch 2.6.x now?
I would like to defer the branch at least until after the TAB->space indentation changes, so that we don't have the hassle of merging through those. Thinking of that, maybe it's best to defer your -Fw '' fix until after that global change, too. > If so, we should try to branch all 2.6.x bugfixes from the stable > branch and merge them into master rather than cherry-picking.
