On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 08:46:37PM +0700, Duy Nguyen wrote: > On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 7:23 PM, Noel Grandin <noel@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What would be nice is a per-user/repo config setting that excludes certain > > files and paths from the 'git grep' search. > > > > Does this sound reasonable/acceptable? > > There is no config setting to do that, but since v1.9.5 you can use > ':!' or ':(exclude) to exclude paths, for example > > git grep foo -- '*.c' ':!src/ ':!*foo*.c' > > will exclude .c files in src directory or contains "foo". If you use > some exclude patterns often, you can write a short script. Perhaps we > could support pathspec macros (similar to git-attr macros), stored in > config file. You still need to type, but it'll be a lot shorter. If it's an attribute of the file, and not the request, maybe gitattributes would be a better fit. You can already do this with: *.foo -diff in your .gitattributes file, though that _also_ marks the files as "not for diffing", which may not be desired. There's not a separate "grep" attribute, but I do not think it would be unreasonable to add one. -Peff -- 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