Re: [PATCH] built-in "git grep" (git grip).

From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: May 1, 2006, 15:48 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0605010842130.21189@g5.osdl.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060501145328.GA14856@mars.ravnborg.org>

On Mon, 1 May 2006, Sam Ravnborg wrote:

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> Seems I have confused myself.
>
>	git grep DEBUG '*/Kconfig*'
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> does indeed work today.

Indeed. I was a bit confused about your report, since not only does it work today, that's how it has always worked, and it was very much designed that way. I use it all the time.

It takes the git-ls-files pathname syntax, which is a bit _different_ from the normal "limit to these paths" syntax, in that it honors '*'. And it honors that a bit differently than normal shell pathname expansion, because for git-ls-files a '*' pattern will match '/' as well.

So

	git grep pattern 'net/*.c'

will match every single C file found _recursively_ inside the "net/" subdirectory, not just in that single directory itself.

So "*" for git grep is a bit more like a "**" pattern in some shells.

		Linus