From: Jay Soffian <jaysoffian@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 15:27:06 GMT
Subject: Re: git-grep to operate across who repository and not just CWD?
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In-Reply-To: <4D6B6A8B.20709@drmicha.warpmail.net>

On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Michael J Gruber
<git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
> git grep -- $(git rev-parse --show-cdup)
>
> is the best we have right now. I think we're still looking for a good
> way to denote "root of repo" (like "." for cwd).
>
> Also, we're thinking of changing a few defaults (to repo-wide), but "git
> grep" is meant to stay close to ordinary grep.

I had the crazy thought that if git had a --cdup option, then this
would work with any command you wanted to run from the top:

  git --cdup grep ...

Maybe that's the best way to expose "from the top please" generically?

j.