From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:43:21 GMT
Subject: Re: git locate
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.1001201238370.31129@intel-tinevez-2-302>
In-Reply-To: <201001201106.20739.jnareb@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Jakub Narebski wrote:

> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 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"' -
> 
> Thanks a lot, Dscho!
> 
> 
> I think it would be nice to have this trick 
> 
>   alias.<cmd> = !sh -c '<commands with $1, $@, $#>' -

Heh.  I initially read @$^&*#^&*@#$.

> described in git-config (alias) documentation.  Unfortunately I don't 
> understand this trick well enough to do it myself...

I tried to explain things properly in

http://git.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Aliases#Advanced_aliases_with_arguments

Ciao,
Dscho