Easily iterate over and search git branches

[mpenning]

This is a common problem I wish pss solved.

• Imagine I have a python class instance method in git REPO_01. This repo has several git branches.

• Imagine my python in git REPO_02 has many git branches, only some of them import the class from REPO_01

Assume I git clone both repos in a directory on my laptop; assume the directory is called ~/project_foo.

How can I iterate over and search all branches and all files of REPO_01 and REPO_02 (which have multiple levels of subdirectories) for a method string, "do_useful_thing_01"?

If I am right, pss can't do this today without installing xargs.

[eliben]

pss is unaware of git branches, and adding such awareness would be a very large feature. I've only needed such functionality very rarely myself, and in such cases a piped command with some git command works well. OOC, where do you have to specifically install xargs? Windows?