Subject: Re: git locate

From: Michael J Gruber <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:42:19 +0100

SungHyun Nam venit, vidit, dixit 21.01.2010 01:11:
> Hello,
> 
> Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Jakub Narebski wrote:
>>
>>> Johannes Schindelin<[email-masked]>  writes:
>>>
>>>> On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, John Tapsell wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>    Could we add a:  git locate<filename>        or git find<filename>
>>>>
>>>> How about "git ls-files \*<filename>"?
>>>
>>> Or "git ls-files '*filename'...
>>>
>>> ... but how to make an (git) alias for this?
>>
>> Add something like this to your $HOME/.gitconfig:
>>
>> [alias]
>>          locate = !sh -c 'git ls-files "\\*$1"' -
> 
> The alias 'git locate' and the command 'git ls-files' runs
> differently if I run them in a subdirectory.
> Is it expected?
> 
> [master] ~/srcs/git[299]$ git locate urls.txt
> Documentation/urls.txt
> [master] ~/srcs/git[300]$ git ls-files '*urls.txt'
> Documentation/urls.txt
> [master] ~/srcs/git[301]$ cd t
> [master] ~/srcs/git/t[302]$ git locate urls.txt
> Documentation/urls.txt
> [master] ~/srcs/git/t[303]$ git ls-files '*urls.txt'
> [master] ~/srcs/git/t[304]$

Yes, aliases with "!" are executed from the root of the worktree,
ls-files from the current wd.

Michael