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From: Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com>
To: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] grep docs: document --no-index option
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:07:48 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ca433831002261407l4d708283m5129c582a55fb1b6@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7vocjceg0y.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>

On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:13 AM, Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com> wrote:
> Mark Lodato <lodatom@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> +--no-index::
>> +     Search all files in the working tree, not just those tracked by git.
>
> This one is meant to be usable outside git directory, and saying "the
> working tree" is misleading.  The "work tree" is a technical term that
> specifically means the files in the directory hierarchy on the filesystem
> that correspond to the index entries that represent them.
>
> It probably should say "the current directory" or something here.

Here's a squashable commit to do just that.

---
 Documentation/git-grep.txt |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/git-grep.txt b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
index 86d7401..3e6eaf7 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-grep.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-grep.txt
@@ -37,7 +37,8 @@ OPTIONS
        blobs registered in the index file.

 --no-index::
-       Search all files in the working tree, not just those tracked by git.
+       Search all files in the current directory, not just those tracked
+       by git.

 -a::
 --text::
-- 
1.7.0

      reply	other threads:[~2010-02-26 22:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-02-26  3:40 [PATCH 0/4] git-grep documentation updates Mark Lodato
2010-02-26  3:40 ` [PATCH 1/4] grep docs: pluralize "Example" section Mark Lodato
2010-02-26  3:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] grep docs: use AsciiDoc literals consistently Mark Lodato
2010-02-26  3:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] grep docs: --cached and <tree>... are incompatible Mark Lodato
2010-02-26  3:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] grep docs: document --no-index option Mark Lodato
2010-02-26  5:13   ` Junio C Hamano
2010-02-26 22:07     ` Mark Lodato [this message]

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