Angus Lees <gus@inodes.org> writes:

> "git grep" is recursive.  Consequently, the globbing for FILES arg needs
> to be done *inside* git, and not by the shell invoking git.
>
> Specifically: `vc-git-grep` needs to shell-escape the FILES value after
> `grep-read-files` (so `grep-files-aliases` continues to work) and before
> calling `grep-expand-template` (which does no escaping itself).
>

You mean something like the patch below? I considered splitting on
spaces and doing shell-quote-argument, but that seems like overkill.

(this is where someone points me at a function somewhere in emacs that
does exactly this operation already)