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[James Westby <jw+debian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:42:04 +1100, Jonathan Lange <jml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Interestingly, I showed the recipe for bzr-tools-grep at UDS-L, and a
> git fan in the audience sniggered about Bazaar's vaunted usability
> because,
>    "bzr ls -VR --kind=file --null | xargs -0 grep -In %s"
> 
> becomes
>   "git grep %s"
> 
> Perhaps someone would like to add the grep command to bzr-core, or a plugin.

You mean like lp:~vila/bzr/grep (confusingly a plugin under the bzr
project?)

I agree that it would be great to have it in core.

Thanks,

James