From: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 00:47:19 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-grep: Add ability to limit directory recursion
Message-ID: <20080507004719.GJ18081@yugib.highrise.ca>
In-Reply-To: <m3iqxr54uy.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

* Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com> [080506 20:34]:
> Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> writes:
> 
> > This add a -R <limit> option to git-grep which will limit the depth of the
> > directories recursed when git is doing a grep.
> > 
> > This allows you to do something like:
> >         git grep -R 1 <pattern>
> > and see only the results of the grep on files in the current directory.
> > 
> > It defaults to a limit of "0" which disables the limiting.
> 
> Nice idea, although I'm not sure if we shouldn't borrow "-maxdepth"
> option from GNU find and friends...

Good idea - I hadn't thought of that, but I like it better.

a.
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