George Spelvin, 15.01.2009: > While you're at it, an option to search the entire git tree rather than > the current subdirectory would also be useful. I was thinking about > a flag like -r (for "root"), but a second idea dawned on me: interpret > absolute pathnames as relative to the root of the repository. So I could > "git grep <pattern> /" or "git grep <pattern> /include" from any subdirectory. I have never used submodules execpt for trying out, but I think it would ambigous when calling this command from inside a submodule. It's not clear, whether the main repo or the submodule should be used. Markus -- 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