Subject: Re: ls-files [Was: Re: Fwd: git status options feature suggestion]

From: "Shawn O. Pearce" <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 14:41:18 -0700

James Cloos <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >>>>> "Johannes" == Johannes Schindelin <[email-masked]> writes:
> 
> >> > How about "git ls-files -o"?
> >> 
> >> doh... hadn't even heard of that command.
> 
> Johannes> Which is good!  As ls-files is listed as plumbing.
> Johannes> Users should not need to call ls-files,
> 
> That is a bug, then.  ls-files is one of the more important user-level
> commands in git.
> 
> It is vastly more efficient than find(1) or a --recursive call to
> grep(1).

How about using "git grep" then?  No need for ls-files...

-- 
Shawn.