Hi, Matěj Cepl wrote: > On Thu Jan 2, 2025 at 2:39 PM CET, Hongyi Zhao wrote: >> Do you mean: by linking ug as git-ug will do the trick? > > No, you would have to rewrite git-grep to use external grep-like > program. I am not sure whether there isn’t such project already > out there. The key question is - what are you trying to do? "git grep" is able to search inside historical commits, the working copy, the index, and so on. Do we want to search in the same way to find files with hits (for efficiency reasons, for example) and then use an external program to find the matches within those files? For that kind of application I might do some scripting around "git grep --name-only", but I can also imagine that your application is different. Depending on the goal, it could be something a git command already supports, an implied feature request for git, or something that the external search tool might need to learn. In other words, Matěj's reply is spot on in describing the current behavior: "git grep" doesn't call out to an external grep tool. But as for the desired behavior, we'd need to know more about the use case to figure it out. Thanks, Jonathan
