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From: Christoph Berg <myon@debian.org>
To: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: wishlist: git grep -r
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2018 16:01:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180929140132.GA31238@msg.df7cb.de> (raw)

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I often use "grep -r $pattern" to recursively grep a source tree. If
that takes too long, I hit ^C and tag "git" in front of the command
line and re-run it. git then complains "error: unknown switch `r'"
because "git grep" is naturally recursive.

Could we have "git grep -r" accept the argument for compatibility?
Other important grep switches like "-i" are compatible, adding -r
would improve usability.

Thanks,
Christoph

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             reply	other threads:[~2018-09-29 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-29 14:01 Christoph Berg [this message]
2018-09-29 14:55 ` [PATCH] grep: provide a noop --recursive option Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-29 15:08   ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-29 15:25     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-09-29 15:47       ` Duy Nguyen
2018-09-29 17:11   ` Junio C Hamano
2018-09-29 19:38     ` Christoph Berg
2018-10-01 19:15     ` René Scharfe
2018-10-05  8:17       ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-05 12:49         ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2018-10-01 19:23   ` Stefan Beller
2018-10-05  8:15     ` Christoph Berg
2018-10-05  8:19     ` Junio C Hamano
2018-10-05 13:05       ` Mischa POSLAWSKY
2018-10-05 19:17         ` Stefan Beller

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