Re: git-grep while excluding files in a blacklist

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On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Does git-grep allow searching for a pattern in all files *except*
>>> files matching a pattern. E.g. in our project we have multiple DLL's
>>> in git, but when searching I would like to exclude these for speed. Is
>>> that possible with git-grep?
>>
>> Not from command line, no. You can put "*.dll" to .gitignore file then
>> "git grep --exclude-standard".
>
> No rush, but is this something we would eventually want to handle with the
> negative pathspec?

Definitely. But because I'm stuck at adding "seen" feature from
match_pathspec_depth to tree_entry_interesting, that probably won't
happen this year. Adding "--exclude=<pattern>" to git-grep is a more
plausible option.
-- 
Duy
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