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Re: [WARNING] Proposed future changes that are backward incompatible

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GSGeorge Spelvin <linux@horizon.com>
Date
Feb 27, 2009, 19:27 UTC
Message-ID
<20090227192708.6266.qmail@science.horizon.com>
There's one more change that was suggested that I'd like to propose:
- Make "git grep" search the whole repository by default; include an
  explicit "." path limiter to search only the current directory.

In addition to being more consistent with other commands like "git log", this saves a lot of typing working in drivers/net/usb/ if the identifier you're looking for is in include/. Typing the additional space-dot is pretty trivial if you want the current directory only.

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  1. George SpelvinFeb 27, 2009
  2. Nicolas PitreFeb 27, 2009
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  4. Johannes SchindelinFeb 27, 2009
  5. Pascal ObryFeb 27, 2009
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  8. Junio C HamanoFeb 27, 2009
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