From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 07 May 2008 00:34:48 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-grep: Add ability to limit directory recursion
Message-ID: <m3iqxr54uy.fsf@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <1210094304-2450-1-git-send-email-aidan@highrise.ca>

Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> writes:

> This add a -R <limit> option to git-grep which will limit the depth of the
> directories recursed when git is doing a grep.
> 
> This allows you to do something like:
>         git grep -R 1 <pattern>
> and see only the results of the grep on files in the current directory.
> 
> It defaults to a limit of "0" which disables the limiting.

Nice idea, although I'm not sure if we shouldn't borrow "-maxdepth"
option from GNU find and friends...

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Jakub Narebski
Poland
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