From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] git-grep: Add ability to limit directory recursion
Date: Tue, 06 May 2008 17:34:48 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3iqxr54uy.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1210094304-2450-1-git-send-email-aidan@highrise.ca>
Aidan Van Dyk <aidan@highrise.ca> writes:
> This add a -R <limit> option to git-grep which will limit the depth of the
> directories recursed when git is doing a grep.
>
> This allows you to do something like:
> git grep -R 1 <pattern>
> and see only the results of the grep on files in the current directory.
>
> It defaults to a limit of "0" which disables the limiting.
Nice idea, although I'm not sure if we shouldn't borrow "-maxdepth"
option from GNU find and friends...
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-07 0:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-06 17:18 [PATCH] git-grep: Add ability to limit directory recursion Aidan Van Dyk
2008-05-07 0:34 ` Jakub Narebski [this message]
2008-05-07 0:47 ` Aidan Van Dyk
2008-05-07 1:34 ` Jakub Narebski
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