From: Duy Nguyen <pclouds@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 13:46:37 GMT
Subject: Re: feature request: excluding files/paths from "git grep"
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