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Re: git grep: search whole tree by default?

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Jed Brown <jed@59a2.org>
Date
Oct 23, 2013, 18:20 UTC
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Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> writes:
> I suspect that it would be too late for 2.0 we want to do sometime
> early next year, though.

How would you manage transition from the current behavior? Warning people to explicitly use "." or ":/" during some interim period sounds worse than just switching the default behavior.

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