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Why would you want to use this tool to grep individual repos? If you know the repo you're interested in, you can just clone it and then grep it locally...?


So you don’t have to clone it and grep it locally


I like to grep a code pattern through out all repos. I use gstreamer, and sometimes i just don't know how to use it to do a specific thing. So i search substrings to find out usage patterns by other people.


Some things can take a while to clone. On the top end, repos like blink, webkit, and gecko can take half an hour or more.


Even with --depth=1?




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