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Do you know about “git grep”? It’s like grep but only greps files tracked by git. Very useful.

• wonderbore 4y ago
  Why use a git-specific tool when a generic one (rg) works just as well, even from a parent directory? I often use rg to search code across repositories so it's useful to have that regardless of grep and git
  • Tempest1981 4y ago
    Often a directory contains a mix of source files (in git) and output files (usually in .gitignore). But maybe rg automatically handles this?
    • jraph 4y ago
      It does
• jraph 4y ago
  I didn't, seems worth giving a look.