Re: git locate

[Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Jun 2, 2010 at 12:02 PM, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2 June 2010 14:00, John Tapsell <johnflux@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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"' -
>
>
> Actually could someone help me with this.. the trouble is that this
> returns paths relative to the root.
>
> Can I get it to find all the files, but relative to where I am now?

Make it a git command, not an alias. You'll then be fine. put
git-locate somewhere in your $PATH

--<--
#!/bin/sh
git ls-files | grep --color=auto "$1"
--<--

Of course you need to chmod u+x for it.
-- 
Duy