Re: git-grep while excluding files in a blacklist

On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 3:09 AM, Junio C Hamano [off-list ref] wrote:

Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy [off-list ref] writes:

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On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:14 PM, Dov Grobgeld [off-list ref] wrote:

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Does git-grep allow searching for a pattern in all files *except*
files matching a pattern. E.g. in our project we have multiple DLL's
in git, but when searching I would like to exclude these for speed. Is
that possible with git-grep?

Not from command line, no. You can put "*.dll" to .gitignore file then
"git grep --exclude-standard".

No rush, but is this something we would eventually want to handle with the
negative pathspec?

Definitely. But because I'm stuck at adding "seen" feature from
match_pathspec_depth to tree_entry_interesting, that probably won't
happen this year. Adding "--exclude=<pattern>" to git-grep is a more
plausible option.
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Duy