From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 20:23:22 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] grep: --full-tree
Message-ID: <7vd436uzet.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <fabb9a1e0911251219t3ad0dacen67d8615ef6eefa02@mail.gmail.com>

Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 20:32, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
>> The standard answer given by others has been "you can always say '.' at
>> the end; having to remember/count number of ../ necessary is much much
>> more inconvenient".
>
> A commandline flag to keep the old behavior then perhaps? "git config
> alias.gr 'grep --no-full-tree'" is not that hard to write either.

But then you can alias "gr 'grep --full-tree'" with the same ease and
there is no reason to change the default.