Re: git locate

SungHyun Nam venit, vidit, dixit 21.01.2010 01:11:

Hello,

Johannes Schindelin wrote:

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On Tue, 19 Jan 2010, Jakub Narebski wrote:

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Johannes Schindelin[off-list ref]  writes:

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On Wed, 20 Jan 2010, John Tapsell wrote:

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   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