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 [[_git_grep]]
 ==== Git Grep
 
-Git ships with a command called `grep` that allows you to easily search through any committed tree or the working directory for a string or regular expression.
+Git ships with a command called `grep` that allows you to easily search through any committed tree, the working directory, or even the index for a string or regular expression.
 For the examples that follow, we'll search through the source code for Git itself.
 
 By default, `git grep` will look through the files in your working directory.