# Re: [PATCH 10/16] grep: skip files that have not been checked out

1 messages from 2008-09-15 to 2008-09-15. Participants: Jakub Narebski.
Thread: https://gitlist.dev/t/15532

## Jakub Narebski, 2008-09-15 07:48

Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/16] grep: skip files that have not been checked out
Message-ID: <200809150948.46139.jnareb@gmail.com>
URL: https://gitlist.dev/e/200809150948.46139.jnareb%40gmail.com
In-Reply-To: <48cdd6cb7415e_3c273fa85e999d2827466@app01.zenbe.com.tmail>

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Duy Nguyen wrote:
> On 09/15/2008 "Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  builtin-grep.c |    7 ++++++-
> > >  1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> > 
> > No changes to Documentation/git-grep.txt?
> 
> No, "git grep" should only grep files in working directories. In
> narrow checkout mode, some files may be missing but current "git grep"
> does not know about that, hence this fix.  

Perhaps that should be stated explicitly, that git-grep searches only
[intentionally] checked-out files when searching working directory,
and only files without no-checkout bit set when searching index with
"git grep --cached".

P.S. I think it should be [--cached|<tree>...] in git-grep synopsis,
and not [--cached] ... [<tree>...], but that is unrelated thing, and
doesn't matter to you.
-- 
Jakub Narebski
Poland

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