Re: What's cooking in git.git (Nov 2008, #06; Wed, 26)

> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy schrieb:
>
> > On 12/12/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> 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).
>
>
> But what if the same persion notices a #define in a kdeutils header file
>  and want's to know whether it is unused in order to remove it:
>
>     $ git grep FOO
>     kdeutils/foo.h:#define FOO bar

>  Conclusion from this output: "It's only defined, but not used anywhere."
>  But this conclusion is not necessarily correct because FOO could be used
>  outside kdeutils.
>
>  So, no, "git grep" should disregard the checkout area.
>
>  -- Hannes
>