Re: [PATCH] grep --no-index: allow use of "git grep" outside a git repository

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Jan 16, 2010, 04:15 UTC
Message-ID: <7vpr5ait1m.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20100116011512.GA27082@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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>>     git grep --all-match -e Junio -e Dscho
>
> That one is a little harder (though it is not something I do very often,
> and I had to actually read the docs to find what --all-match does):
>
>   grep Junio `grep -l Dscho *`
>
> which of course has problems with exotic filenames.

Also it doesn't find lines that match Dscho in the result ;-)

Realistically, this most often is used when grepping in the log, e.g.

    git log --all-match --author=peff --grep=test

I actually wish "log" to somehow default to --all-match mode at least when using the --author option. "Change by Jeff, or about test by anybody" is rarely what I would want to look for.