SungHyun Nam venit, vidit, dixit 21.01.2010 01:11: > Hello, > > Johannes Schindelin wrote: >> >> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Jakub Narebski wrote: >> >>> Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: >>> >>>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, John Tapsell wrote: >>>> >>>>> Could we add a: git locate<filename> or git find<filename> >>>> >>>> How about "git ls-files \*<filename>"? >>> >>> Or "git ls-files '*filename'... >>> >>> ... but how to make an (git) alias for this? >> >> Add something like this to your $HOME/.gitconfig: >> >> [alias] >> locate = !sh -c 'git ls-files "\\*$1"' - > > The alias 'git locate' and the command 'git ls-files' runs > differently if I run them in a subdirectory. > Is it expected? > > [master] ~/srcs/git[299]$ git locate urls.txt > Documentation/urls.txt > [master] ~/srcs/git[300]$ git ls-files '*urls.txt' > Documentation/urls.txt > [master] ~/srcs/git[301]$ cd t > [master] ~/srcs/git/t[302]$ git locate urls.txt > Documentation/urls.txt > [master] ~/srcs/git/t[303]$ git ls-files '*urls.txt' > [master] ~/srcs/git/t[304]$ Yes, aliases with "!" are executed from the root of the worktree, ls-files from the current wd. Michael -- To unsubscribe from this list: 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