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g3orge
wow. I didn't even know about git grep. Very useful
pjscott
It's probably my most commonly-used git command, to the point where I have it aliased to "g g".
piotrSikora
You guys should really look into http://betterthangrep.com/ :)
pokeylope
Agreed, ack is a really nice tool.
jpitz
As amazing as ack is, it would take some effort to teach it how to grep through git history.
obtu
Way slower, because it includes vendored files I don't care about.
numeromancer
Whatever happened to generation numbers?
jacknagel
IIRC (I read the git mailing list) there was a lot of arguing about whether generation numbers should be in the commit headers or stored in separate cache, and then a different fix went in to speed up "tag --contains" and the discussion was pretty much abandoned.
fr0sty
The author should try adding this to his .git/info/attributes file:

     *.py diff=python
That should make --function-context work better on python source files.
technomancy
I wonder how hard it is to teach it new languages.
fr0sty
All you need to do is write a regex to match. Currently supported languages are:

BibTeX, C/C++, html, java, ObjectiveC, Pascal, PHP, Python, Ruby, and TeX.

More details can be found in the gitattributes(5) manpage

a1k0n
Isn't it kind of odd that that isn't the default, given that diff=python is already built in?
callahad
The "[command] learned [option]" construct is a really interesting way to phrase directed development effort. I'm not quite sure what the implications are, but it definitely changed the way I parsed and understood the post. "Git is getting smarter" versus "New features have been added to git."
alexchamberlain
We all know that Git will, one day, take over the world.
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