From: Markus Heidelberg <markus.heidelberg@web.de>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:04:27 GMT
Subject: Re: fatal: git grep: cannot generate relative filenames containing '..'
Message-ID: <200901160004.27956.markus.heidelberg@web.de>
In-Reply-To: <20090115222905.8157.qmail@science.horizon.com>

George Spelvin, 15.01.2009:
> 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