Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: how to look for source code in kernel | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Fri, 28 Dec 2012 13:31:39 -0800 |
| |
On Fri, 2012-12-28 at 16:09 +0000, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 11:36:13PM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > But then I am probably peculiar keeping an index of the source code in > > my head. When I need to look for something and I don't know where to > > find it I do. > > > > git-ls-files | xargs fgrep 'struct f2fs_inode' > > What's wrong with git grep?
Positive: it loads multiple cpus with very little file I/O Negative: it doesn't use -P very well. it won't spans lines like:
struct name {
with git grep -P "\bstruct\s+\w+\s*{"
(the last grep that does I believe is 2.54)
| |