Re: [PATCH] grep: provide a noop --recursive option

> Stefan Beller <sbeller@google.com> writes:
> 
> > git-grep is always file/tree recursive, but there is --recurse-submodules
> > which is off by default. Instead of providing a short alias to a noop,
> > we could use -r for submodules. (And if you happen to have no
> > submodules, this is a noop for you)
> 
> I am not sure if it is an overall win for those who do have and use
> submodules to easily be able to go recursive with a short-and-sweet
> 'r', or even they want to work inside one project at a time most of
> the time.  If the latter, then using 'r' for recurse-submodules is
> going to be a mistake (besides, other commands that have 'recursive'
> typically use 'r' for its shorthand,and 'r' does not stand for
> 'recurse-submodules' for them).