From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2011 22:37:14 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] add -u: get rid of "treewideupdate" configuration
Message-ID: <7vei5c1iat.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20110408223206.GA7343@sigill.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

> I am not sure of that. I thought there was interest in full-tree grep
> (OK, _I_ had some interst in it).  But the same transition pain
> arguments apply there, and we should be able to do "git grep pattern :/"
> soon, right?

I never tested it myself, but the earlier "support :/ at a wrong level
get_pathspec()" patch should take care of "git grep" as well.  It is
equivalent to the "alternative approach" Michael posted as RFC as a
follow-up to his earlier "grep --full-tree" thread.