how to look for source code in kernel

Jonathan Neuschäfer j.neuschaefer at gmx.net
Fri Dec 28 15:42:53 EST 2012


On Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:49:53AM -0800, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Al Viro <viro at ZenIV.linux.org.uk> writes:
> 
> > 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?
> 
> I haven't learned it yet.  git-ls-files is a lot better than find
> speed wise so is very much worth doing.    I haven't a clue if
> there is an advantage to git-grep, over just knowing find, xargs, and
> grep.

Brevity.

Jonathan



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