Subject: bug#22144: --exclude no longer works against arguments with a directory name

From: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2015 15:27:27 -0800

Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> For the "main case", is this
> the canonical name as returned by realpath?

I don't see why.  grep doesn't need to compute anything's realpath.