[Python-Dev] Emacs users: hg-tools-grep

Brandon W Maister bwmaister at gmail.com
Wed Dec 12 15:46:36 CET 2012


Yes indeed-- in my eagerness to make my first post to python-dev be
well-received I completely forgot about git grep.

brandon


On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Xavier Morel <python-dev at masklinn.net>wrote:

> On 2012-12-12, at 15:12 , Ross Lagerwall wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 01:27:21PM +0200, Petri Lehtinen wrote:
> >> Brandon W Maister wrote:
> >>> (defconst git-tools-grep-command
> >>>  "git ls-files -z | xargs -0 grep -In %s"
> >>>  "The command used for grepping files using git. See
> `git-tools-grep'.")
> >>
> >> What's wrong with git grep?
> >
> > Or "hg grep", for that matter?
>
> hg grep searches the history, not the working copy. *-tools-grep only
> searches the working copy but automatically filters files to only search
> in files under version control.
>
> Which as far as I know is indeed what git-grep does already.
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