On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:32:36PM -0700, Junio C Hamano wrote: > This attempts to set up built-in "git grep" to further reduce > our dependence on the shell, while at the same time optionally > allowing to run grep against object database. You could do > funky things like these: > > git grep --cached -e pattern ;# grep from index > git grep -e pattern master ;# or in a rev > git grep -e pattern master next ;# or in multiple revs > git grep -e pattern pu^@ ;# even like this with an > ;# extension from another topic ;-) > git grep -e pattern master..next ;# or even from rev ranges > git grep -e pattern master~20:Documentation > ;# or an arbitrary tree > git grep -e pattern next:git-commit.sh > ;# or an arbitrary blob > A feature I have been missing often has been the possibility to limit grep (and ls-files) to certain filenames. Say: git grip -e DEBUG 'Kconfig*' I usually do something stupid like: git ls-files | grep Kconfig | xargs grep DEBUG Thought it may be trivial to extend git grip while you are there anyway. But obviously only if this is useful for more than just me. Sam - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html