From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "George Spelvin" Subject: Re: [WARNING] Proposed future changes that are backward incompatible Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:27:08 -0500 Message-ID: <20090227192708.6266.qmail@science.horizon.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: linux@horizon.com To: git@vger.kernel.org, gitster@pobox.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Feb 27 20:28:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ld8O2-0006pu-F1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Fri, 27 Feb 2009 20:28:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758697AbZB0T1N (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:27:13 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758591AbZB0T1M (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:27:12 -0500 Received: from science.horizon.com ([192.35.100.1]:17278 "HELO science.horizon.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1758261AbZB0T1L (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Feb 2009 14:27:11 -0500 Received: (qmail 6267 invoked by uid 1000); 27 Feb 2009 14:27:08 -0500 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: There's one more change that was suggested that I'd like to propose: - Make "git grep" search the whole repository by default; include an explicit "." path limiter to search only the current directory. In addition to being more consistent with other commands like "git log", this saves a lot of typing working in drivers/net/usb/ if the identifier you're looking for is in include/. Typing the additional space-dot is pretty trivial if you want the current directory only.