From: Michael J Gruber Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:54:55 GMT Subject: Re: git-grep to operate across who repository and not just CWD? Message-ID: <4D6CB45F.1030800@drmicha.warpmail.net> In-Reply-To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy venit, vidit, dixit 01.03.2011 09:16: > On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Michael J Gruber > wrote: >> I would love "git grep" to be repowise, with the simple "git grep ." to >> make it relative to cwd. We've discussed making more commands repowise, >> and the consensus (which I've stated above, accepting the majority vote) >> was that some should stay, e.g. git-grep. The discussion started with >> >> >> >> and the consensus is stated here: >> >> >> >> This does not prevent you from submitting a "--full-tree" patch for >> git-grep, of course. > > In fact Junio wrote one: > > http://mid.gmane.org/7vk4xggv27.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org Oh yes, thanks for reminding me. And guess who replied first back then? Oh well... > If I remember correctly, it was dropped because of the interaction > with pathspecs (relative to cwd vs to worktree's root). I'd be great > if someone can pick it up and finish it. Rereading that thread, I don't think there was any objection against "--full-tree", but it suffered from DTD (discussed-to-death). To make it really usefull, one would need a short-cut/option/whatever, and that's where the discussion went astray. I have an idea, though :) Michael