From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 21:45:26 GMT
Subject: Re: Add "git grep" helper
Message-ID: <7vbr2y7yfd.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0509121203210.4098@g5.osdl.org>

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> writes:

> Very convenient shorthand for
>
> 	git-ls-files [file-patterns] | xargs grep <pattern>
>
> which I tend to do all the time.

Great minds think alike.  I stopped using 'grep-find' in Emacs
and use "git-ls-fiels -z | xargs -0 grep" instead these days.
Thanks for the patch; applied.

I do not much care about other grep flags but I think you forgot
to special case '-e', so what is in the "master" branch has one
extra commit on top of it for that (it does not seem to have
percolated down yet).