From: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 16:13:27 GMT Subject: Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #06; Wed, 26) Message-ID: In-Reply-To: <7vy6ym9nm8.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> On 12/12/08, Junio C Hamano wrote: > So "git grep -e frotz Documentation/", whether you only check out > Documentation or the whole tree, should grep only in Documentation area, > and "git grep -e frotz" should grep in the whole tree, even if you happen > to have a sparse checkout. By definition, a sparse checkout has no > modifications outside the checkout area, so whenever grep wants to look > for strings outside the checkout area it should pretend as if the same > content as what the index records is in the work tree. This is consistent > with the way how "git diff" in a sparsely checked out work tree should > behave. Assume someone is using sparse checkout with KDE git repository. They sparse-checkout kdeutils module and do "git grep -e foo". I would expect that the command only searches in kdeutils only (and is the current behavior). -- Duy