Re: fatal: git grep: cannot generate relative filenames containing '..'

Hannu Koivisto [off-list ref] wrote:

It turns out that this "entire git tree" is practically my only use
case when using normal (find and) grep and when I first tried git
grep, I actually expected it to do just that with no path specified.

Why?  Because of the way at least git diff and git log work.  I
thought that just like with them, "git grep foo" would search the
entire git tree and I would have to say "git grep foo ." to limit to
the current directory and its subdirectories.  git-grep(1)'s "Look
for specified patterns in the working tree files..." at least
didn't seem to disagree with my expectation so I was a bit puzzled.

So I'd rather see git grep behave in a way consistent with git log
and git diff (I realize that would change current behaviour instead
of extending it).

D'oh.  You're completely right.  Space-dot is trivial to type if you
want the current directory only, and that is more consistent.

Could that be considered for 1.7?