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From: John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git locate
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:07:05 +0000
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2010/1/20 Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>:
> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>> Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, John Tapsell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> =C2=A0 Could we add a: =C2=A0git locate <filename> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
=C2=A0 or git find <filename>
>>>>
>>>> How about "git ls-files \*<filename>"?
>>>
>>> Or "git ls-files '*filename'...
>>>
>>> ... but how to make an (git) alias for this?
>>
>> Add something like this to your $HOME/.gitconfig:
>>
>> [alias]
>> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 locate =3D !sh -c 'git ls-files "\\*$1"'=
 -
>

I think having this alias by default would be very nice though - it's
pretty common to locate/find files, and it's nice to have unixy
equivalents in git.

If this really isn't wanted, then perhaps the ls-files command should
be bash auto-completed?

Thanks!

John