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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: let git grep consider sub projects
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 11:25:53 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq8ukrg2j2.fsf@gitster.dls.corp.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141007082914.GA2729@aepfle.de> (Olaf Hering's message of "Tue, 7 Oct 2014 10:29:14 +0200")

Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de> writes:

> How can I teach 'git grep $string' to also consider subprojects?
>
> The build system of xen.git clones 4 other trees into a directory in its
> source tree during build. It would be nice if my 'git grep' searches
> also in these cloned subdirs. Somehow there must be some knowledge
> because 'git clean -dfx' leaves them alone, while 'git clean -dffx'
> wipes everything.
>
> Olaf
>
> PS: Sometimes I miss a 'git clean -dfx --also-sub-repos' useful to
> really clean everything before starting over.

Is "submodule foreach" under-advertised or with less than adequate
features?

  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-07 18:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-07  8:29 let git grep consider sub projects Olaf Hering
2014-10-07 18:25 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2014-10-07 19:12   ` Mikael Magnusson
2014-10-08  6:48     ` Jens Lehmann
2014-10-08  6:59       ` Olaf Hering
2014-10-08  7:24         ` Jens Lehmann
2014-10-08  7:31           ` Olaf Hering

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