From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Nov 2009 00:02:57 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree
Message-ID: <7v8wdup2z2.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20091125222625.GB2861@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 02:19:35PM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
>
>> Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
>> 
>> > ... That is, I don't want to have to remember "git grep
>> > --full-tree" or "git grep /" every time
>> 
>> But that cuts both ways.  If you change the default to full-tree,
>> people will forget to put "." every time when asking to limit to the
>> current directory.
>
> I know. Which is why I am arguing for a configuration option.

Yeah; what is your take on tr/reset-checkout-patch topic, by the way?  I
do not particularly like a configuration that changes the behaviour of a
command in a drastic way---it will make helping others much harder, but I
guess it should be Ok?

This may sound like an OffTopic, but because we _are_ discussing
consistency, it matters.