bug#37212: closed (Incorrect --exclude description with 'grep --help')

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> Incorrect --exclude description with 'grep --help'
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> Wed, 28 Aug 2019 17:25:54 +0100
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> Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.8.0
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> 'grep --help' incorrectly states that the --exclude option operates on
> directories. Here's the suggested change to the help text:
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> -      --exclude=GLOB        skip files and directories matching GLOB
> +      --exclude=GLOB        skip files matching GLOB
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> It might also be worthwhile changing 'that match' to 'matching' in these
> 2 options to give consistent phrasing across the 4 include/exclude
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> -      --include=GLOB        search only files that match GLOB (a file
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> +      --include=GLOB        search only files matching GLOB (a file
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> -      --exclude-dir=GLOB    skip directories that match GLOB
> +      --exclude-dir=GLOB    skip directories matching GLOB
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#37212: Incorrect --exclude description with 'grep --help' Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2020 01:57:15 -0800 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2

Thanks for the bug report. I installed the attached (slightly different) patch
to fix the bug and inconsistency.

0001-doc-fix-exclude-description-in-man-page.patch
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