From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 14:09:55 GMT
Subject: Re: Relative ls-files
Message-ID: <7v7hbqgc7g.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=BrgZe47Bt5evr_qFzKBL=MY-6NmH22gsRurVV@mail.gmail.com>

Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com> writes:

> and the answer is git ls-files --with-tree=<treeish> | grep <regex> .
> But the --with-tree param is so counterintuitive to me that I read the
> manpage, everytime.

Because --with-tree nor ls-files is the tool that was designed for.

If you want to find out about a branch, why aren't you using "ls-tree -r"?