"George Spelvin" <linux@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Could someone fix this some day?
As far as I know you are the first to ask for this, so perhaps people never
considered this was something to "fix"....
> "git grep <pattern> ../include"
> is something I find myself wanting quite frequently, and it's a fresh
> annoyance every time I type it to discover that it still doesn't work.
>
> 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
$ grep -r foo ..
will look for foo anywhere below one level up from your current directory,
and I think it may be a reasonable enhancement to teach:
$ git grep foo ..
to do the same. Patches welcome ;-).
By the way, congratulations for getting a name. Can we fix one entry in
our .mailmap file?
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