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.

Unsorted grep results ( rg def | head )

zeitgrep results ( zg def | head )

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

cargo install zeitgrep

zg {regular expression}

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

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

zg TODO --sort=asc