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From: Michael J Gruber <git@drmicha.warpmail.net>
To: Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>
Cc: Phil Hord <hordp@cisco.com>,
	David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: git-grep to operate across who repository and not just CWD?
Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2011 09:54:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6CB45F.1030800@drmicha.warpmail.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim78nQgS7NPXWErQyrqmt41OUXY6gzJmMwjtxo9@mail.gmail.com>

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy venit, vidit, dixit 01.03.2011 09:16:
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 3:05 PM, Michael J Gruber
> <git@drmicha.warpmail.net> wrote:
>> I would love "git grep" to be repowise, with the simple "git grep ." to
>> make it relative to cwd. We've discussed making more commands repowise,
>> and the consensus (which I've stated above, accepting the majority vote)
>> was that some should stay, e.g. git-grep. The discussion started with
>>
>> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/166135>
>>
>> and the consensus is stated here:
>>
>> <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/167149>
>>
>> This does not prevent you from submitting a "--full-tree" patch for
>> git-grep, of course.
> 
> In fact Junio wrote one:
> 
> http://mid.gmane.org/7vk4xggv27.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org

Oh yes, thanks for reminding me. And guess who replied first back then?
Oh well...

> If I remember correctly, it was dropped because of the interaction
> with pathspecs (relative to cwd vs to worktree's root). I'd be great
> if someone can pick it up and finish it.

Rereading that thread, I don't think there was any objection against
"--full-tree", but it suffered from DTD (discussed-to-death). To make it
really usefull, one would need a short-cut/option/whatever, and that's
where the discussion went astray. I have an idea, though :)

Michael

  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-01  8:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-28  0:17 git-grep to operate across who repository and not just CWD? David Chanters
2011-02-28  9:27 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-02-28 15:27   ` Jay Soffian
2011-02-28 18:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-28 18:38       ` Junio C Hamano
2011-02-28 22:25   ` Phil Hord
2011-03-01  8:05     ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01  8:16       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-01  8:54         ` Michael J Gruber [this message]
2011-03-01  9:32           ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-01  9:44             ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-01  9:53               ` [PATCH/POC 0/2] grep --full-tree Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01  9:53                 ` [PATCH/RFC 1/2] grep: --full-tree Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01  9:53                 ` [PATCH/RFC 2/2] grep: make --full-tree work with pathspecs Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01 19:20                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-01 10:21               ` [PATCH/alternative/raw and rough] setup.c: denote repo wide pathspecs by ':' Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01 11:13                 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-01 11:16                   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01 11:50                     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-01 11:57                       ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01 12:08                         ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-01 14:50                           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-01 15:01                             ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01 20:00                               ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-02 12:34                               ` Sverre Rabbelier
2011-03-02 12:57                                 ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-02 13:12                                   ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-02 16:53                                     ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-02 17:31                                       ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-03  2:42                                         ` Miles Bader
2011-03-03  3:52                                           ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-03  3:44                                       ` Phil Hord
2011-03-03  8:20                                         ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01 16:25                             ` Phil Hord
2011-03-01 18:31                             ` James Pickens
2011-03-02  0:12                     ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-03  3:51                       ` Phil Hord
2011-03-03  8:21                         ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01 11:49                 ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-01 13:05                   ` Phil Hord
2011-03-23 15:32                 ` [PATCH] pathspec: reserve some letters after a colon pathspec Nguyễn Thái Ngọc Duy
2011-03-23 18:04                   ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-24  7:15                     ` Michael J Gruber
2011-03-24  7:49                       ` Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy
2011-03-24  8:12                         ` Junio C Hamano
2011-03-24 14:46                       ` Junio C Hamano

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