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doc: clarify failure mode

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This adds a hint for end users that run into a common failure mode where
ripgrep won't search any files because they have a `*` rule in their
`$HOME/.gitignore`.

Fixes #815
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Andrew Gallant 2018-02-20 19:39:16 -05:00
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@ -58,6 +58,10 @@ $ rg fast README.md
129: optimizations to make searching very fast.
```
(**Note:** If you see an error message from ripgrep saying that it didn't
search any files, then re-run ripgrep with the `--debug` flag. One likely cause
of this is that you have a `*` rule in a `$HOME/.gitignore` file.)
So what happened here? ripgrep read the contents of `README.md`, and for each
line that contained `fast`, ripgrep printed it to your terminal. ripgrep also
included the line number for each line by default. If your terminal supports