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Re: fatal: git grep: cannot generate relative filenames containing '..'

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Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date
Jan 15, 2009, 23:04 UTC
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George Spelvin, 15.01.2009:
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> While you're at it, an option to search the entire git tree rather than
> the current subdirectory would also be useful.  I was thinking about
> a flag like -r (for "root"), but a second idea dawned on me: interpret
> absolute pathnames as relative to the root of the repository.  So I could
> "git grep <pattern> /" or "git grep <pattern> /include" from any subdirectory.

I have never used submodules execpt for trying out, but I think it would ambigous when calling this command from inside a submodule. It's not clear, whether the main repo or the submodule should be used.

Markus
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  2. Markus HeidelbergJan 15, 2009
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  4. Jon LoeligerJan 16, 2009
  5. Hannu KoivistoJan 17, 2009
  6. George SpelvinJan 18, 2009
  7. Johannes SchindelinJan 16, 2009
  8. Junio C HamanoJan 16, 2009
  9. George SpelvinJan 16, 2009
  10. George SpelvinJan 16, 2009
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