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zeitgrep

Search frecently‑edited lines of code in your Git repository, ranked by how often and how recently a file has changed.

zeitgrep is a grep-like command that allows you to search files in a Git repository. The results are sorted by a frecency score generate by frecenfile. It uses ripgrep as a search backend.

Usage example

Unsorted grep results ( rg def | head )
zeitgrep results ( zg def | head )

✨ Features

  • Ripgrep‑style regex search over your Git repository
  • Results ranked by frecency using the frecenfile library.
  • Scalable to large repositories

📦 Installation

🚀 Usage

🧑‍🍳 Recipes

Live grep in Neovim using telescope.nvim

To configure telescope.nvim to use zeitgrep for live grep, use the following:

require("telescope").setup {
  defaults = {
    vimgrep_arguments = {
      "zg",
      "--column",
      "--color=never",
    },
  },
}

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