Re: how to look for source code in kernel

[Eric W. Biederman]

Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.

Eric

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