From: Andy Lester <andy@petdance.com>
To: "Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason" <avarab@gmail.com>
Cc: perl5-porters@perl.org, Git Mailing List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Maybe there should be a git-grep plumbing interface for ack et al.
Date: Sun, 9 Jan 2011 21:38:14 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <A206547D-A7FF-49CD-A122-0FDCD2FBF452@petdance.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=E0x55-RUz5CJXL_LJ6hPr--Nupp-Ti72kpNv=@mail.gmail.com>
On Jan 9, 2011, at 4:17 PM, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote:
> Then e.g. ack(1) could use this new plumbing command to read files
> when in a git repository, but could provide Perl's regex features and
> other things it has.
The plan for ack 2.0 is to have plugins that anyone can write to allow acking for whatever you want. You'll write a plugin for PDF files and go acking for text in there, or an Excel file, or some file that specifies a Postgresql table, or whatever. It's up to the plugin to figure out how that happens. I'm not interested in writing hooks to git or any file system any more complicated than straight calls to open(), but plugin writers will have the flexibility to do it themselves.
xoa
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2011-01-09 22:17 Maybe there should be a git-grep plumbing interface for ack et al Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
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