On 12/12/08, Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > So "git grep -e frotz Documentation/", whether you only check out > Documentation or the whole tree, should grep only in Documentation area, > and "git grep -e frotz" should grep in the whole tree, even if you happen > to have a sparse checkout. By definition, a sparse checkout has no > modifications outside the checkout area, so whenever grep wants to look > for strings outside the checkout area it should pretend as if the same > content as what the index records is in the work tree. This is consistent > with the way how "git diff" in a sparsely checked out work tree should > behave. Assume someone is using sparse checkout with KDE git repository. They sparse-checkout kdeutils module and do "git grep -e foo". I would expect that the command only searches in kdeutils only (and is the current behavior). -- 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
