How can I search a bare Git repo for a string in the contents of the current revision?

Question

Is it possible for Git to search the contents of the text files in a bare repository for a specific string?

I'm building a search feature for WebGit .NET to allow for searching the current state of all repositories for text.

Answer 1

It sounds like you're looking for git grep. When searching a bare repository, you must specify somewhere to search:

git grep foobar HEAD

Answer 2

Something like that?

git grep -e textstring HEAD

or

git ls-files|xargs -I% -n 1 git cat-file -p HEAD:%|grep textstring