Re: git-grep to operate across who repository and not just CWD?

> Hi all,
> 
> [ Please Cc me as I am not subscribed to this list, thanks. ]
> 
> I'm wondering if there's an easy way to get git-grep (and I suppose
> other commands which operate on a per-repository level rather than
> per-tree) to work across the whole repository?
> 
> Often I will be in the depths of my git repository, run "git grep
> --options 'search string'", to find no results.  Of course, then I
> remember that git grep doesn't work across the whole repository, it
> works like normal grep, and only considers the CWD onwards.
> Typically I end up cursing, using {push,pop}d to recall where I am,
> cd'ing to the root of the repository and running "git grep" from there
> and then poping my CWD to go back to where I was.
> 
> Is there some clever trickery or command-line flag I've not read about
> in the "git-grep" man page to make this idea more seamless?