Re: feature request: excluding files/paths from "git grep"

From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Feb 25, 2015, 13:46 UTC
Message-ID: <CACsJy8AM=W4f6u_7YpvmfiBwrJjqfJMJoq6CQYfKOh+qD6rF3Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <54EDBEC2.8090107@peralex.com>

On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Noel Grandin <noel@peralex.com> wrote:

> What would be nice is a per-user/repo config setting that excludes certain
> files and paths from the 'git grep' search.
>
> Does this sound reasonable/acceptable?

There is no config setting to do that, but since v1.9.5 you can use ':!' or ':(exclude) to exclude paths, for example

git grep foo -- '*.c' ':!src/ ':!*foo*.c'

will exclude .c files in src directory or contains "foo". If you use some exclude patterns often, you can write a short script. Perhaps we could support pathspec macros (similar to git-attr macros), stored in config file. You still need to type, but it'll be a lot shorter.

-- 
Duy