From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:17:17 GMT
Subject: git locate
Message-ID: <43d8ce651001191717l58d10919j691f4e5b056fe9b5@mail.gmail.com>

Hey all,

  Could we add a:  git locate <filename>       or git find <filename>
 that is just an alias to "git ls-files | grep filename" ?

Reasons:

1) git ls-files   does not autocomplete, since it's an low-level
plumbing command
2) It's nice having shell equivalents - e.g.  git grep etc

John