I use git grep constantly. Today it failed for me. It isn't looking
at all the files for some reason. Am I somehow missing something?
midsizeschools@ut:~/tams (master u= origin/master)$ git ls-files | wc
254 254 10062
midsizeschools@ut:~/tams (master u= origin/master)$ git grep -l . | wc
250 250 9938
midsizeschools@ut:~/tams (master % u= origin/master)$ git grep -l . |
sort > b
midsizeschools@ut:~/tams (master % u= origin/master)$ git ls-files |
sort > a
midsizeschools@ut:~/tams (master % u= origin/master)$ diff a b
26,27d25
< app/models/tars_attendee.rb
< app/models/tars_district_registration.rb
144d141
< nbproject/private/config.properties
156d152
< public/favicon.ico
# git knows about the file:
~/tams (master u= origin/master)$ git ls-files | grep
app/models/tars_district_registration.rb
app/models/tars_district_registration.rb
# the string is found by grep in the file:
~/tams (master u= origin/master)$ grep accepts_nested_attributes_for
app/models/tars_district_registration.rb
accepts_nested_attributes_for :tars_attendees, :allow_destroy =>
false, :reject_if => proc { |attrs| attrs.all? { |k, v| v.blank? } }
# but git grep doesn't find the file????
~/tams (master u= origin/master)$ git grep accepts_nested_attributes_for
~/tams (master u= origin/master)$
# git version is reasonably new - not my server, can't upgrade it
~/tams (master u= origin/master)$ git --version
git version 2.19.2
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Wayne Walker
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