[PATCH] Added --include-exclude-dirs option

[Clifford Wolf]

Hi,

the attached patch adds a new grep option: --include-exclude-dirs

Usually, when grepping recusively over a directory tree, the
include/exclude patterns are only applied to file but not directory names.

In some cases that is pretty anoying, e.g. when grepping in a subversion
working copy where one usually does not want to recurse into the .svn
directories. With this patch applied one can do that using:

        grep --exclude=.svn --include-exclude-dirs FOOBAR .

I'd really appreciate if you would apply this in CVS and so include it in
the next release.

The patch is against grep-2.5.1a and not CVS HEAD. I hope that does not
matter..

yours,
 - clifford

-- 
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inclexcldirs.patch
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