[PATCH] Add "git grep" helper

Very convenient shorthand for

	git-ls-files [file-patterns] | xargs grep <pattern>

which I tend to do all the time.

Yes, it's trivial, but it's really nice. I can do

	git grep '\<some_variable\>' arch/i386 include/asm-i386

and it does exactly what you'd think it does. And since it just uses the
normal git-ls-files file patterns, you can do things like

	git grep something 'include/*.h'

and it will search all header files under the include/ subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/git-grep.sh b/git-grep.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..db2296c33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/git-grep.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+flags=
+while :; do
+  pattern="$1"
+  case "$pattern" in
+  -i|-I|-a|-E|-H|-h|-l)
+    flags="$flags $pattern"
+    shift
+    ;;
+  -*)
+    echo "unknown flag $pattern" >&2
+    exit 1
+    ;;
+  *)
+    break
+    ;;
+  esac
+done
+shift
+git-ls-files -z "$@" | xargs -0 grep $flags "$pattern"