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--exclude no longer works against arguments with a directory name

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Vincent Lefevre <vincent <at> vinc17.net>
Cc: 22144 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22144: --exclude no longer works against arguments with a directory name
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2015 01:09:40 -0800

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Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The documentation is still ambiguous. For the "main case", is this
> the canonical name as returned by realpath?
>
>> >As you say, the 2.22 behavior does not seem ideal.
> By doing a difference for subfiles of a recursive search, this is
> even worse!

Please try the attached patch, which I've installed into the savannah 
repository. It attempts to fix the behavior, and to clarify the documentation. 
It is a tricky area. Hope this helps.

[0001-grep-exclude-matches-trailing-parts-of-args.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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