On Thu, Oct 9, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Shawn O. Pearce <spearce@spearce.org> wrote:
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> James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
>> >>>>> "Johannes" == Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>> >> > How about "git ls-files -o"?
>> >>
>> >> doh... hadn't even heard of that command.
>>
>> Johannes> Which is good!  As ls-files is listed as plumbing.
>> Johannes> Users should not need to call ls-files,
>>
>> That is a bug, then.  ls-files is one of the more important user-level
>> commands in git.
>>
>> It is vastly more efficient than find(1) or a --recursive call to
>> grep(1).
>
> How about using "git grep" then?  No need for ls-files...

I use git-grep for searching the contents of files in the repo, but it
seems to me that git ls-files is necessary for quickly parsing the
file names themselves.

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