Subject: Re: bug#33880: [PATCH] Compress past NEWS files during installation

From: Alex <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2019 12:28:16 -0600

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: Alex <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
>> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 15:33:24 -0600
>> 
>> If you view them in Emacs, then `auto-compression-mode' decompresses
>> the files on the fly.
>
> I usually grep them outside Emacs.

Any chance you have zgrep on your system?

If not, then do you not have an uncompressed git repository directory to
grep?