bug#43782: in egrep (grep 3.0), the order of include & exclude is surprisingly significant

[Paul Eggert]

On 10/3/20 12:00 PM, John Ruckstuhl wrote:
> In egrep (grep 3.0), the order of options (multiple --include and --exclude), 
> is surprisingly significant.
> I was puzzled by 5 extra output lines in my first egrep,
> so I did another egrep, with the --include moved up front.

That's expected behavior, but it's not documented and should be. Thanks for 
bringing it up. I installed the attached doc patch.

0001-doc-document-include-exclude-better.patch
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