On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:02 PM, John Tapsell <johnflux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 2 June 2010 14:00, John Tapsell <johnflux@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On 15 February 2010 22:20, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Heya, >>> >>> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:11, SungHyun Nam <goweol@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>> The alias 'git locate' and the command 'git ls-files' runs >>>> differently if I run them in a subdirectory. >>>> Is it expected? >>> >>> I just ran into this (I wanted to alias 'git find' but to me the 'run >>> ls-files from cwd' is desirable. Also, I prefer to have a trailing >>> glob as well, so I added one :). An easy solution is to drop >>> 'git-find' in your path somewhere: >> >> I have finally settled on: >> >> [alias] >> locate = !sh -c 'git ls-files | grep --color=auto "$1"' - > > > Actually could someone help me with this.. the trouble is that this > returns paths relative to the root. > > Can I get it to find all the files, but relative to where I am now? Make it a git command, not an alias. You'll then be fine. put git-locate somewhere in your $PATH --<-- #!/bin/sh git ls-files | grep --color=auto "$1" --<-- Of course you need to chmod u+x for it. -- Duy -- 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