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From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Subject: git locate
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Hey all,

  Could we add a:  git locate <filename>       or git find <filename>
 that is just an alias to "git ls-files | grep filename" ?

Reasons:

1) git ls-files   does not autocomplete, since it's an low-level
plumbing command
2) It's nice having shell equivalents - e.g.  git grep etc

John