From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
Cc: El_Hoy <eloyesp@gmail.com>, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Making git grep ignore binary the default
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:01:28 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqq347gw65j.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251018102209.GH1060824@coredump.intra.peff.net> (Jeff King's message of "Sat, 18 Oct 2025 06:22:09 -0400")
Jeff King <peff@peff.net> writes:
> I think we've discussed this before, and digging in the archive found
> this thread from 2012:
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/git/4f1d2a8b.a2d8320a.50ec.576d@mx.google.com/
>
> I think some of those ideas came to fruition. You can do:
>
> git grep ':(attr:!binary)'
>
> now (which obviously is harder than "-I", but the point is that it
> extends to any attribute if you want). But I still think it would be
> nice if there was a way to make it the default (without using an alias).
Yeah, after I re-read the thread, I specially liked the "filetype"
idea that you floated in
https://lore.kernel.org/git/20120125214625.GA4666@sigill.intra.peff.net/
;-).
prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-18 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-17 15:00 Making git grep ignore binary the default El_Hoy
2025-10-17 21:29 ` Junio C Hamano
2025-10-17 23:29 ` Thomas Braun
2025-10-18 0:52 ` brian m. carlson
2025-10-18 14:16 ` rsbecker
2025-10-20 15:24 ` Thomas Braun
2025-10-20 17:20 ` El_Hoy
2025-10-21 7:27 ` Jeff King
2025-10-18 10:22 ` Jeff King
2025-10-18 16:01 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
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