Bug 443043 - Add git text search as a equivalent to git grep
Summary: Add git text search as a equivalent to git grep
Status: NEW
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Product: EGit
Classification: Technology
Component: UI (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified   Edit
Hardware: PC Windows NT
: P3 enhancement (vote)
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Reported: 2014-09-01 21:54 EDT by Roland Schulz CLA
Modified: 2019-03-27 11:57 EDT (History)
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Description Roland Schulz CLA 2014-09-01 21:54:31 EDT 
It would be nice to have text search in EGit similar to "git grep". At least on the command line it is much faster than other text searches.
Comment 1 Mykola Nikishov CLA 2015-06-30 15:54:21 EDT 
[Batch change] Remove pre-3.7 Target Milestones

If anyone on CC list is going to fix/implement this, please assign a new 3.7+ target milestone.
Comment 2 Alexander Nittka CLA 2019-03-27 11:57:24 EDT 
https://git.eclipse.org/r/#/c/139585/

I implemented (the start of) a very rough proof of concept, analogouos to the existing Git Search, i.e. the search itself walks over the working tree and does a naive pattern matching.

One comment to the first patch suggests first implementing the grep as JGit command and then use that from EGit. I must say, I do not feel up to that task (which seems more like adding a new wing to a castle rather than sweeping the steps to the servants' entrance). This does not mean that I am not willing to help.