From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:32:10 GMT
Subject: Re: git locate
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001201021060.31129@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <m3zl49bk0o.fsf@localhost.localdomain>

Hi,

On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> 
> > On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, John Tapsell wrote:
> > 
> > >   Could we add a:  git locate <filename>       or git find <filename>
> > 
> > How about "git ls-files \*<filename>"?
> 
> Or "git ls-files '*filename'...
> 
> ... but how to make an (git) alias for this?

Add something like this to your $HOME/.gitconfig:

[alias]
        locate = !sh -c 'git ls-files "\\*$1"' -

Ciao,
Dscho