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Subject: Re: git-grep while excluding files in a blacklist
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 12:09:36 -0800
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Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Does git-grep allow searching for a pattern in all files *except*
>> files matching a pattern. E.g. in our project we have multiple DLL's
>> in git, but when searching I would like to exclude these for speed. Is
>> that possible with git-grep?
>
> Not from command line, no. You can put "*.dll" to .gitignore file then
> "git grep --exclude-standard".

No rush, but is this something we would eventually want to handle with the
negative pathspec?