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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox•com>
To: Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro•org>
Cc: git@vger•kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] New config option for git-grep to include untracked files
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 17:21:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqwmpzt6jk.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1710781235.git.dsimic@manjaro.org> (Dragan Simic's message of "Mon, 18 Mar 2024 18:03:20 +0100")

Dragan Simic <dsimic@manjaro•org> writes:

> This patch series introduces new config option grep.includeUntracked,
> which makes the untracked files also searched by default when git-grep(1)
> is invoked, in addition to searching the tracked files.

Hmph.  I am moderately negative on any configuration that screws
with the default haystack from which needle is sought for.

I may often do "git grep --cached" but that does not mean I would
welcome an configuration option to make "git grep" search in the
index even when the request by the user does not have "--cached".

Inclusion of untracked sources in a sense is even worse, especially
when an unsuspecting "git grep" user (or a script) fully expects
that any paths found in the output are to be found in "git ls-files
-s" output but when you stray into a repository with the
configuration set, that expectation suddelnly gets broken.

So, I dunno.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2024-03-19  0:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-03-18 17:03 [PATCH 0/5] New config option for git-grep to include untracked files Dragan Simic
2024-03-18 17:03 ` [PATCH 1/5] grep: perform some minor code and comment cleanups Dragan Simic
2024-03-18 19:59   ` Eric Sunshine
2024-03-18 22:03     ` Dragan Simic
2024-03-19  0:32     ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-19  5:33       ` Dragan Simic
2024-03-18 17:03 ` [PATCH 2/5] grep docs: describe --recurse-submodules further and improve formatting a bit Dragan Simic
2024-03-18 20:02   ` Eric Sunshine
2024-03-18 22:14     ` Dragan Simic
2024-03-18 17:03 ` [PATCH 3/5] grep docs: describe --no-index further Dragan Simic
2024-03-19  0:55   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-19  5:37     ` Dragan Simic
2024-03-18 17:03 ` [PATCH 4/5] grep: introduce new config option to include untracked files Dragan Simic
2024-03-19  0:58   ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-19  5:47     ` Dragan Simic
2024-03-19 14:32       ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-19 14:52         ` Dragan Simic
2024-03-18 17:03 ` [PATCH 5/5] grep docs: describe " Dragan Simic
2024-03-19  0:21 ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2024-03-19  5:09   ` [PATCH 0/5] New config option for git-grep " Dragan Simic
2024-03-19 17:43     ` Junio C Hamano
2024-03-19 17:48       ` Dragan Simic

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