Can I use Git to search for matching filenames in a repository?

Question

Just say I have a file: \"HelloWorld.pm\" in multiple subdirectories within a Git repository.

I would like to issue a command to find the full paths of all the files

Answer 1

git ls-files will give you a listing of all files in current state of the repository (the cache or index). You can pass a pattern in to get files matching that pattern.

git ls-files HelloWorld.pm '**/HelloWorld.pm'

If you would like to find a set of files and grep through their contents, you can do that with git grep:

git grep some-string -- HelloWorld.pm '**/HelloWorld.pm'