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From: Heiko Voigt <hvoigt@hvoigt.net>
To: Chris Packham <judge.packham@gmail.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org, Jens Lehmann <jens.lehmann@web.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] submodule aware grep
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:47:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100924134748.GA576@book.hvoigt.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1285276627-7907-1-git-send-email-judge.packham@gmail.com>

Hi,

On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 02:17:05PM -0700, Chris Packham wrote:
> This series contains 2 RFC patches that both implement a grep feature for
> submodules.  The first patch is a self-contained script for contrib that should
> work with most current git versions. The 2nd is basically the same
> implementation but done as a proper git submodule command with some of the
> helper code moved to git-sh-setup.sh
> 
> There are a couple of questions for this. Technically I'm making submodule 
> grep-aware, should I be making grep submodule-aware instead? I haven't looked 
> at the grep code yet but I imagine its harder.

Nice work! IMO it would be even nicer to have it as part of git grep.
Have a look at Jens branch about submodule checkout:

http://github.com/jlehmann/git-submod-enhancements (enhance_git_for_submodules)

particularly how checkout_submodule() is implemented. It forks a git
checkout inside the submodule. In a similar way you could fork a grep
there. Then you just have to teach the forked grep to prepend the
submodules path.

Cheers Heiko

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-09-24 13:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-23 21:17 [RFC PATCH 0/2] submodule aware grep Chris Packham
2010-09-23 21:17 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] contrib: add git-submodule-grep.sh Chris Packham
2010-09-23 21:17 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] submodule: add grep command Chris Packham
2010-09-24 13:47 ` Heiko Voigt [this message]
2010-09-24 16:07   ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] submodule aware grep Chris Packham
2010-09-24 17:10   ` Jens Lehmann

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