Re: Making git grep ignore binary the default

From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Oct 18, 2025, 16:01 UTC
Message-ID: <xmqq347gw65j.fsf@gitster.g>
In-Reply-To: <20251018102209.GH1060824@coredump.intra.peff.net>

Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:

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> I think we've discussed this before, and digging in the archive found
> this thread from 2012:
>
>   https://lore.kernel.org/git/4f1d2a8b.a2d8320a.50ec.576d@mx.google.com/
>
> I think some of those ideas came to fruition. You can do:
>
>   git grep ':(attr:!binary)'
>
> now (which obviously is harder than "-I", but the point is that it
> extends to any attribute if you want). But I still think it would be
> nice if there was a way to make it the default (without using an alias).

Yeah, after I re-read the thread, I specially liked the "filetype" idea that you floated in

  https://lore.kernel.org/git/20120125214625.GA4666@sigill.intra.peff.net/

;-).