From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2009 01:52:56 GMT
Subject: Re: fatal: git grep: cannot generate relative filenames containing '..'
Message-ID: <7vr634ow3r.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090115222905.8157.qmail@science.horizon.com>

"George Spelvin" <linux@horizon.com> writes:

> Could someone fix this some day?

As far as I know you are the first to ask for this, so perhaps people never
considered this was something to "fix"....

> "git grep <pattern> ../include"
> is something I find myself wanting quite frequently, and it's a fresh
> annoyance every time I type it to discover that it still doesn't work.
>
> While you're at it, an option to search the entire git tree rather than
> the current subdirectory would also be useful.  I was thinking about
> a flag like -r (for "root"),...

... but

    $ grep -r foo ..

will look for foo anywhere below one level up from your current directory,
and I think it may be a reasonable enhancement to teach:

    $ git grep foo ..

to do the same.  Patches welcome ;-).

By the way, congratulations for getting a name.  Can we fix one entry in
our .mailmap file?