From: David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:17:28 GMT
Subject: git-grep to operate across who repository and not just CWD?
Message-ID: <AANLkTimnOSzF1o-fX-n7b26Qx2aLP3aU3pTMGY_f5hKy@mail.gmail.com>

Hi all,

[ Please Cc me as I am not subscribed to this list, thanks. ]

I'm wondering if there's an easy way to get git-grep (and I suppose
other commands which operate on a per-repository level rather than
per-tree) to work across the whole repository?

Often I will be in the depths of my git repository, run "git grep
--options 'search string'", to find no results.  Of course, then I
remember that git grep doesn't work across the whole repository, it
works like normal grep, and only considers the CWD onwards.
Typically I end up cursing, using {push,pop}d to recall where I am,
cd'ing to the root of the repository and running "git grep" from there
and then poping my CWD to go back to where I was.

Is there some clever trickery or command-line flag I've not read about
in the "git-grep" man page to make this idea more seamless?

TIA,

David