From: Mark Lodato Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:07:48 GMT Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] grep docs: document --no-index option Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vocjceg0y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org> On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Junio C Hamano wrote: > Mark Lodato writes: > >> +--no-index:: >> +     Search all files in the working tree, not just those tracked by git. > > This one is meant to be usable outside git directory, and saying "the > working tree" is misleading.  The "work tree" is a technical term that > specifically means the files in the directory hierarchy on the filesystem > that correspond to the index entries that represent them. > > It probably should say "the current directory" or something here. Here's a squashable commit to do just that. --- Documentation/git-grep.txt | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt index 86d7401..3e6eaf7 100644 --- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt +++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt @@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ OPTIONS blobs registered in the index file. --no-index:: - Search all files in the working tree, not just those tracked by git. + Search all files in the current directory, not just those tracked + by git. -a:: --text:: -- 1.7.0