Subject: Re: Tool renames? was Re: First stab at glossary

From: Martin Langhoff <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 12:13:29 +1200

On 9/6/05, Linus Torvalds <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Grepping for strings.
> 
> For example, when renaming a binary, the sane way to check that you fixed
> all users right now is
> 
>         grep old-binary-name *.c *.h *-scripts
> 
> and you catch all users.

Grep knows how to ignore binary files. Try:

   grep -I git-commit *

cheers,

martin