Re: feature request: excluding files/paths from "git grep"

Junio C Hamano venit, vidit, dixit 26.02.2015 21:59:

Michael J Gruber [off-list ref] writes:

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So, as a summary of the discussion, it seems it's time to switch the
default to --textconv for git grep?

Hmmm, why?

Nobody seems to be asking for such a change in this thread.  The
original issue IIRC was that the grep output was unnecessary for
some paths and the repository did not mark these paths as such.
Once they are marked as "-diff", there is no reason why you want to
trigger textconv to squelch the hits from grep.

Of course not. All that I want, and that I wanted back then, was to have
diff and grep behave the same.

So that does not sound to me a summary of the discussion at all.

Well, your conditional

I do not recall its conclusion, but it it were "Yes, that is what it
means", then it might be reasonable to:

 - have "git grep" ignore paths marked with -diff by default
   (perhaps "-a" option to disable, just like GNU)

 - have "git grep" pay attention to diff.textconv and search in the
   result of textconv filter.

and Jeff's "Yes" on that condition certainly read like that to me: Make
"git grep" react to "diff", "-diff" attributes in the same way as "git
diff".

But I've set up my alias greppp since then and don't care any more, and
I won't invest anything in this topic any more.

Michael