Re: git locate

From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Date: Jun 2, 2010, 10:02 UTC
Message-ID: <AANLkTil38OLw3J6ZPvv2wNu98QuTXJKtNwRZP0NDZPWn@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim6cLkr5BFTRTh2nZGwsfVgHZi3M-b9IER8dHf3@mail.gmail.com>

On 2 June 2010 14:00, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:

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> On 15 February 2010 22:20, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Heya,
>>
>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:11, SungHyun Nam <goweol@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> The alias 'git locate' and the command 'git ls-files' runs
>>> differently if I run them in a subdirectory.
>>> Is it expected?
>>
>> I just ran into this (I wanted to alias 'git find' but to me the 'run
>> ls-files from cwd' is desirable. Also, I prefer to have a trailing
>> glob as well, so I added one :). An easy solution is to drop
>> 'git-find' in your path somewhere:
>
> I have finally settled on:
>
> [alias]
>    locate = !sh -c 'git ls-files | grep --color=auto "$1"' -

Actually could someone help me with this.. the trouble is that this returns paths relative to the root.

Can I get it to find all the files, but relative to where I am now?

John