Re: git locate

From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Jan 20, 2010, 10:06 UTC
Message-ID: <201001201106.20739.jnareb@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001201021060.31129@intel-tinevez-2-302>

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, John Tapsell wrote:
>>> 
>>>>   Could we add a:  git locate <filename>       or git find <filename>
>>> 
>>> How about "git ls-files \*<filename>"?
>> 
>> Or "git ls-files '*filename'...
>> 
>> ... but how to make an (git) alias for this?
> 
> Add something like this to your $HOME/.gitconfig:
> 
> [alias]
>         locate = !sh -c 'git ls-files "\\*$1"' -

Thanks a lot, Dscho!

I think it would be nice to have this trick

  alias.<cmd> = !sh -c '<commands with $1, $@, $#>' -

described in git-config (alias) documentation. Unfortunately I don't understand this trick well enough to do it myself...

-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland