Re: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] grep: add support for grepping in submodules

> On 29/09/10 15:21, Jens Lehmann wrote:
> > Am 29.09.2010 22:28, schrieb Chris Packham:
> >> When the --recurse-submodules option is given git grep will search in
> >> submodules as they are encountered.
> > 
> > As "git clone" already introduced a "--recursive" option for
> > submodule recursion IMO "--recursive" should be used here too for
> > consistency. (Maybe you took the idea to use "--recurse-submodules"
> > from my "git-checkout-recurse-submodules" branch on github? But that
> > is only used there because I didn't get around to change it yet like
> > I did in the "fetch-submodules-too" branch).
> 
> I actually started with --recursive and switched to
> --recurse-submodules. One thing with this is the standard grep
> --recursive option which may cause some confusion if people expect git
> grep to behave like normal grep. I'll switch to using --recursive for
> now until someone objects to the potential confusion.

> One more thought on this that has been hanging around in my mind. I
> sometimes want to do something on all but one submodule, in this case
> with grep I'm fairly likely to want to skip a linux repository because I
> already know the thing I'm looking for is in userland. Maybe in the
> future we can make --recursive take an argument that allows us to
> specify/restrict which submodules get included in the command invocation.