Re: git locate

["Štěpán Němec" <stepnem@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 09:11:20AM +0900, SungHyun Nam wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Jakub Narebski wrote:
> >
> >>Johannes Schindelin<Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>  writes:
> >>
> >>>On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, John Tapsell wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>   Could we add a:  git locate<filename>        or git find<filename>
> >>>
> >>>How about "git ls-files \*<filename>"?
> >>
> >>Or "git ls-files '*filename'...
> >>
> >>... but how to make an (git) alias for this?
> >
> >Add something like this to your $HOME/.gitconfig:
> >
> >[alias]
> >         locate = !sh -c 'git ls-files "\\*$1"' -
> 
> The alias 'git locate' and the command 'git ls-files' runs
> differently if I run them in a subdirectory.
> Is it expected?
> 
> [master] ~/srcs/git[299]$ git locate urls.txt
> Documentation/urls.txt
> [master] ~/srcs/git[300]$ git ls-files '*urls.txt'
> Documentation/urls.txt
> [master] ~/srcs/git[301]$ cd t
> [master] ~/srcs/git/t[302]$ git locate urls.txt
> Documentation/urls.txt
> [master] ~/srcs/git/t[303]$ git ls-files '*urls.txt'
> [master] ~/srcs/git/t[304]$

Yeah, as stated in another part of the Wiki page Dscho referred to
(namely the "Serve repo on the spot" section):

"It makes use of the fact that (currently, as of git 1.5.6.1) non-git
alias are executed from the top-level dir of a repo."

("non-git" == those starting with "!", which is the case here)


    Štěpán