https://blog.bekenev.net/tags/git.html Software development related stuff en-us Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.bekenev.net/2019/04/03/git-grep-untracked.html Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.bekenev.net/2019/04/03/git-grep-untracked.html <p>Turned out I use <code>git grep</code> a lot with my VIM (using <a href="https://github.com/dkprice/vim-easygrep/issues">EasyGrep</a> plugin). At some point this plugin just stopped to show me all the available results.</p> <p>Due to lack of explicit <code>git grep</code> usage it was pretty mysterious.</p> <p>The reason is that <code>git grep</code> doesn&rsquo;t search in untracked files. If you want to search in untracked files too just add <code>--untracked</code> option to the command like this:</p> <pre tabindex="0"><code>git grep --untracked SomethingILookingFor * </code></pre><p><a href="https://git-scm.com/docs/git-grep">Official git grep doc</a></p>