Subject: Re: bug#36644: Git log search

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2019 00:38:57 +0300

>> grep backends can be switched implicitly by installing OS packages
>> like 'agrep', 'pcregrep', 'ripgrep', etc.
>
> Do you mean to say that such packages make 'grep' a symbolic link, or
> similar? Because it doesn't look like 'ripgrep' does that.

Yep, something like this, either by package managers, or by users themselves
creating an alias, etc.