From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Date: Mon, 01 May 2006 15:48:44 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] built-in "git grep" (git grip).
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:
> 
> Seems I have confused myself.
>
>	git grep DEBUG '*/Kconfig*'
>
> 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