From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 08:16:05 GMT
Subject: Re: git-grep to operate across who repository and not just CWD?
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In-Reply-To: <4D6CA8B7.5000608@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> I would love "git grep" to be repowise, with the simple "git grep ." to
> make it relative to cwd. We've discussed making more commands repowise,
> and the consensus (which I've stated above, accepting the majority vote)
> was that some should stay, e.g. git-grep. The discussion started with
>
> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/166135>
>
> and the consensus is stated here:
>
> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/167149>
>
> This does not prevent you from submitting a "--full-tree" patch for
> git-grep, of course.

In fact Junio wrote one:

http://mid.gmane.org/7vk4xggv27.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org

If I remember correctly, it was dropped because of the interaction
with pathspecs (relative to cwd vs to worktree's root). I'd be great
if someone can pick it up and finish it.
-- 
Duy