Subject: bug#22577: 25.0.50; vc-git-grep fails when searching for `all' files

From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 06:46:37 +0200

On 02/07/2016 05:17 AM, Óscar Fuentes wrote:

> I propose the following patch to fix this problem. Shell gurus, please
> review.

(Not a guru here.)

> diff --git a/lisp/progmodes/grep.el b/lisp/progmodes/grep.el
> index 7e6f157..3f77a2a 100644
> --- a/lisp/progmodes/grep.el
> +++ b/lisp/progmodes/grep.el
> @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ grep-find-template
>     :group 'grep)
>
>   (defcustom grep-files-aliases
> -  '(("all" .   "* .*")
> +  '(("all" .   "* .[^\\.]*")

I think you don't even need the escape (and it would create a false 
negative for file names starting with '.\'; but nobody should have those 
anyway). Otherwise, it looks good.