Re: [PATCHv2] grep documentation: clarify what files match

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Feb 16, 2010, 02:03 UTC
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In-Reply-To: <1266279940-13251-1-git-send-email-lodatom@gmail.com>

Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> writes:

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> Clarify that git-grep(1) searches only tracked files, and that each
> <path> is a glob, as in git-add(1).  Add an example to show a simple use
> case for searching all .c and .h files.
>
> The meta-variable <path> should be changed to an official term for
> a path glob, and the description for this should be in git(1), not
> git-add(1).  However, we don't yet have such an official term, so just
> use <path> and reference git-add(1) for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
> ---

Looks much better, even though I personally prefer a shorter "work tree" and also think the official name of the stuff is "pathspec".

Will queue until an alternative materializes (if ever) ;-).

Thanks.