From: Hongyi Zhao <hongyi.zhao@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 13:39:13 GMT
Subject: Re: Change the grep command called by git with alternative tools, such as ug.
Message-ID: <CAGP6POKLdTpwsaGo-oyGAiYJMRzwXN06rv3+V7v5QbL6xtDROw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <D6RLU4BY374I.GQY9MLMV1AZJ@cepl.eu>

On Thu, Jan 2, 2025 at 9:00 PM Matěj Cepl <mcepl@cepl.eu> wrote:
>
> On Thu Jan 2, 2025 at 12:49 PM CET, Hongyi Zhao wrote:
> > $ git grep -i jobflow
> >
> > I tried to replace grep with ug, but failed as follows:
>
> AFAIK, git grep doesn’t use external grep(1) binary on its
> own, but rather it uses its own (and slightly different)
> algorithm. Certainly, calling git-ug (or git-rg) will do
> absolutely nothing as long as you have no git-ug binary in your
> $PATH.

Do you mean: by linking ug as git-ug will do the trick?

> Best,
>
> Matěj

Zhao