Re: git locate

[John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com>]

On 15 February 2010 22:20, Sverre Rabbelier <srabbelier@gmail.com> wrote:
> Heya,
>
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 01:11, SungHyun Nam <goweol@gmail.com> wrote:
>> The alias 'git locate' and the command 'git ls-files' runs
>> differently if I run them in a subdirectory.
>> Is it expected?
>
> I just ran into this (I wanted to alias 'git find' but to me the 'run
> ls-files from cwd' is desirable. Also, I prefer to have a trailing
> glob as well, so I added one :). An easy solution is to drop
> 'git-find' in your path somewhere:

I have finally settled on:

[alias]
    locate = !sh -c 'git ls-files | grep --color=auto "$1"' -

This acts as if there is a leading and trailing wildcard, and also
colors the output nicely.

Can we add this as default please?  There didn't seem to be any
resistance in this thread to making it default, just that nobody did
it :)

John