ripgrep began it's life with docopt for argument parsing. Then it moved
to Clap and stayed there for a number of years. Clap has served ripgrep
well, and it probably could continue to serve ripgrep well, but I ended
up deciding to move off of it.
Why?
The first time I had the thought of moving off of Clap was during the
2->3->4 transition. I thought the 3.x and 4.x releases were great, but
for me, it ended up moving a little too quickly. Since the release of
4.x was telegraphed around when 3.x came out, I decided to just hold off
and wait to migrate to 4.x instead of doing a 3.x migration followed
shortly by another 4.x migration. Of course, I just never ended up doing
the migration at all. I never got around to it and there just wasn't a
compelling reason for me to upgrade. While I never investigated it, I
saw an upgrade as a non-trivial amount of work in part because I didn't
encapsulate the usage of Clap enough.
The above is just what got me started thinking about it. It wasn't
enough to get me to move off of it on its own. What ended up pushing me
over the edge was a combination of factors:
* As mentioned above, I didn't want to run on the migration treadmill.
This has proven to not be much of an issue, but at the time of the
2->3->4 releases, I didn't know how long Clap 4.x would be out before a
5.x would come out.
* The release of lexopt[1] caught my eye. IMO, that crate demonstrates
exactly how something new can arrive on the scene and just thoroughly
solve a problem minimalistically. It has the docs, the reasoning, the
simple API, the tests and good judgment. It gets all the weird corner
cases right that Clap also gets right (and is part of why I was
originally attracted to Clap).
* I have an overall desire to reduce the size of my dependency tree. In
part because a smaller dependency tree tends to correlate with better
compile times, but also in part because it reduces my reliance and trust
on others. It lets me be the "master" of ripgrep's destiny by reducing
the amount of behavior that is the result of someone else's decision
(whether good or bad).
* I perceived that Clap solves a more general problem than what I
actually need solved. Despite the vast number of flags that ripgrep has,
its requirements are actually pretty simple. We just need simple
switches and flags that support one value. No multi-value flags. No
sub-commands. And probably a lot of other functionality that Clap has
that makes it so flexible for so many different use cases. (I'm being
hand wavy on the last point.)
With all that said, perhaps most importantly, the future of ripgrep
possibly demands a more flexible CLI argument parser. In today's world,
I would really like, for example, flags like `--type` and `--type-not`
to be able to accumulate their repeated values into a single sequence
while respecting the order they appear on the CLI. For example, prior
to this migration, `rg regex-automata -Tlock -ttoml` would not return
results in `Cargo.lock` in this repository because the `-Tlock` always
took priority even though `-ttoml` appeared after it. But with this
migration, `-ttoml` now correctly overrides `-Tlock`. We would like to
do similar things for `-g/--glob` and `--iglob` and potentially even
now introduce a `-G/--glob-not` flag instead of requiring users to use
`!` to negate a glob. (Which I had done originally to work-around this
problem.) And some day, I'd like to add some kind of boolean matching to
ripgrep perhaps similar to how `git grep` does it. (Although I haven't
thought too carefully on a design yet.) In order to do that, I perceive
it would be difficult to implement correctly in Clap.
I believe that this last point is possible to implement correctly in
Clap 2.x, although it is awkward to do so. I have not looked closely
enough at the Clap 4.x API to know whether it's still possible there. In
any case, these were enough reasons to move off of Clap and own more of
the argument parsing process myself.
This did require a few things:
* I had to write my own logic for how arguments are combined into one
single state object. Of course, I wanted this. This was part of the
upside. But it's still code I didn't have to write for Clap.
* I had to write my own shell completion generator.
* I had to write my own `-h/--help` output generator.
* I also had to write my own man page generator. Well, I had to do this
with Clap 2.x too, although my understanding is that Clap 4.x supports
this. With that said, without having tried it, my guess is that I
probably wouldn't have liked the output it generated because I
ultimately had to write most of the roff by hand myself to get the man
page I wanted. (This also had the benefit of dropping the build
dependency on asciidoc/asciidoctor.)
While this is definitely a fair bit of extra work, it overall only cost
me a couple days. IMO, that's a good trade off given that this code is
unlikely to change again in any substantial way. And it should also
allow for more flexible semantics going forward.
Fixes#884, Fixes#1648, Fixes#1701, Fixes#1814, Fixes#1966
[1]: https://docs.rs/lexopt/0.3.0/lexopt/index.html
This permits the value to be surrounded in double quotes. It's still not
perfect, but probably better than it was. Getting this to be more
correct will likely require writing (or using) a real parser, which I'm
not particularly incliend to do at present.
Fixes#2392, Closes#2629
Like the previous CHANGELOG entry, this marks a bug that was fixed
likely with the introduction of regex 1.9:
$ hyperfine "rg-13.0.0 -ic '\bfoo\b \bbar\b' git-3a06386e.txt" "rg -ic '\bfoo\b \bbar\b' git-3a06386e.txt"
Benchmark 1: rg-13.0.0 -ic '\bfoo\b \bbar\b' git-3a06386e.txt
Time (mean ± σ): 1.034 s ± 0.011 s [User: 1.030 s, System: 0.004 s]
Range (min … max): 1.021 s … 1.053 s 10 runs
Benchmark 2: rg -ic '\bfoo\b \bbar\b' git-3a06386e.txt
Time (mean ± σ): 6.3 ms ± 0.3 ms [User: 4.6 ms, System: 1.6 ms]
Range (min … max): 5.6 ms … 7.3 ms 343 runs
Summary
'rg -ic '\bfoo\b \bbar\b' git-3a06386e.txt' ran
164.95 ± 7.70 times faster than 'rg-13.0.0 -ic '\bfoo\b \bbar\b' git-3a06386e.txt'
This was not fixed by making \b itself faster, but rather, by improving
inner literal extraction. In particular, if the regex doesn't have any
literals extracted, then search time can still be quite slow:
$ time rg-13.0.0 -ic '\b[a-z]{3}\b\s\b[a-z]{3}\b' git-3a06386e.txt
57538
real 0.427
user 0.423
sys 0.003
maxmem 46 MB
faults 0
$ time rg -ic '\b[a-z]{3}\b\s\b[a-z]{3}\b' git-3a06386e.txt
57538
real 0.337
user 0.333
sys 0.003
maxmem 46 MB
faults 0
But then again, so is grep, because grep doesn't benefit from any
literal optimizations either:
$ time grep -E -ic '\b[a-z]{3}\b\s\b[a-z]{3}\b' git-3a06386e.txt
62396
real 1.316
user 1.292
sys 0.007
maxmem 13 MB
faults 7
The count mismatch should probably be investigated.
Fixes#1760
This was probably fixed in a past commit where I bumped the regex engine
to 1.9 (or perhaps more precisely, regex-automata 0.3). But I didn't
track it as fixed at the time.
Fixes#1275
This represents yet another iteration on how `ignore` enqueues and
distributes work in parallel. The original implementation used a
multi-producer/multi-consumer thread safe queue from crossbeam. At some
point, I migrated to a simple `Arc<Mutex<Vec<_>>>` and treated it as a
stack so that we did depth first traversal. This helped with memory
usage in very wide directories.
But it turns out that a naive stack-behind-a-mutex can be quite a bit
slower than something that's a little smarter, such as a work-stealing
stack used in this commit. My hypothesis for why this helps is that
without the stealing component, work distribution can get stuck in
sub-optimal configurations that depend on which directory entries get
assigned to a particular worker. It's likely that this can result in
some workers getting "more" work than others, just by chance, and thus
remain idle. But the work-stealing approach heads that off.
This does re-introduce a dependency on parts of crossbeam which is kind
of a bummer, but it's carrying its weight for now.
Closes#1823, Closes#2591
Ref https://github.com/sharkdp/fd/issues/28
When searching subdirectories the path was not correctly built and
included duplicate parts. This fix will remove the duplicate part if
possible.
Fixes#1757, Closes#2295
It turns out our fast path for -w/--word-regexp wasn't quite correct in
some cases. Namely, we use `(?m:^|\W)(<original-regex>)(?m:\W|$)` as the
implementation of -w/--word-regexp since `\b(<original-regex>)\b` has
some unintuitive results in certain cases, specifically when
<original-regex> matches non-word characters at match boundaries.
The problem is that using this formulation means that you need to
extract the capture group around <original-regex> to find the "real"
match, since the surrounding (^|\W) and (\W|$) aren't part of the match.
This is fine, but the capture group engine is usually slow, so we have a
fast path where we try to deduce the correct match boundary after an
initial match (before running capture groups). The problem is that doing
this is rather tricky because it's hard to know, in general, whether the
`^` or the `\W` matched.
This still doesn't seem quite right overall, but we at least fix one
more case.
Fixes#2574
Previously, sorting worked by sorting the parents and then sorting the
children within each parent. This was done during traversal, but it only
works when sorting parents preserves the overall order. This generally
only works for '--sort path' in ascending order.
This commit fixes the rest of the sorting behavior by collecting all of
the paths to search and then sorting them before searching. We only
collect all of the paths when sorting was requested.
Fixes#2243, Closes#2361
This causes ripgrep to stop searching an individual file after it has
found a non-matching line. But this only occurs after it has found a
matching line.
Fixes#1790, Closes#1930
*.adb and *.ads are the usual extensions for Ada source code,
and *.gpr indicates a GPRbuild project file used for Ada, and
these days often being combined with alire for package dependency
resolution. Alire stores a bunch of files named alire.toml in
different directories in your (gitignored) cache/dependencies/...
Closes#2013
When the extra-verbose style is set for the types tag, completed types
are displayed along with the patterns they correspond to. This can be
enabled by e.g. adding the following to .zshrc:
zstyle ':completion:*:rg:*:types' extra-verbose true
This change also makes _rg_types use the actual rg specified on the
command line to look up types, and it fixes a mangled complete-all
style check
Fixes#2195
Eclasses are "ebuild libraries" and generally if you're filtering
for/filtering out an ebuild/eclass, you don't want the other either.
Followup to 4dfea016b9Closes#2437
This matches the behavior of GNU grep which does not ignore
before-context and after-context completely if the context flag is also
provided.
Note that this change wasn't done just to match GNU grep. In this case,
GNU grep has the more sensible behavior.
Fixes#2288, Closes#2451
This was originally fixed by using non-capturing groups when joining
patterns in crates/core/args.rs, but before that landed, it ended up
getting fixed via a refactor in the course of migrating to regex 1.9.
Namely, it's now fixed by pushing pattern joining down into the regex
layer, so that patterns can be joined in the most effective way
possible.
Still, #2488 contains a useful test, so we bring that in here. The
test actually failed for `rg -e ')('`, since it expected the command to
fail with a syntax error. But my refactor actually causes this command
to succeed. And indeed, #2488 worked around this by special casing a
single pattern. That work-around fixes it for the single pattern case,
but doesn't fix it for the -w or -X or multi-pattern case. So for now,
we're content to leave well enough alone. The only real way to fix this
for real is to parse each regexp individual and verify that each is
valid on its own. It's not clear that doing so is worth it.
Fixes#2480, Closes#2488
GraphQL file extensions: .graphql and .graphqls (schema)
We could also add `.gql`, but perhaps it's less correct to do so. We'll
start conservatively here, and we can always add `.gql` later.
Closes#2439, Closes#2508
When `resolve_binary()` attempts to resolve a path to a program on
Windows while searching for a program in `PATH` without an extension,
`ripgrep` will assume the extension of the file to be `.exe` as it's
the *de facto* standard, which will work most (99.99%) of the time...
...unless the binary is a COM executable (we're on Windows, duh).
Closes#2523
When a glob pattern ended with a \/, and since we permit backslash
escapes, the glob parser gave a "dangling escape" error. Which is weird,
because the \ is clearly not dangling.
The issue is that the layer above the glob parser, the gitignore parser,
was stripping the trailing / so that it wouldn't be part of the matching
logic. Of course, stripping the trailing / while it is escaped without
removing the backslash escape is wrong. So we do that here.
Fixes#2236
Sadly, PCRE2 has different behavior (but doesn't panic). We should look
into that, but for now, this is good enough.
Also, update the CHANGELOG.
Ref #1891
In a previous release, I announced that Fish completions were being
removed. But the Fish project decided to remove theirs and have
ripgrep's stay.
Closes#1577
This fixes a bug where PCRE2 look-around could change the result of a
match if it observed a line terminator in the printer. And in
particular, this is precisely how the searcher operates: the line is
considered unto itself *without* the line terminator.
Fixes#1401
This commit hacks in a bug fix for handling look-around across multiple
lines. The main problem is that by the time the matching lines are sent
to the printer, the surrounding context---which some look-behind or
look-ahead might have matched---could have been dropped if it wasn't
part of the set of matching lines. Therefore, when the printer re-runs
the regex engine in some cases (to do replacements, color matches, etc
etc), it won't be guaranteed to see the same matches that the searcher
found.
Overall, this is a giant clusterfuck and suggests that the way I divided
the abstraction boundary between the printer and the searcher is just
wrong. It's likely that the searcher needs to handle more of the work of
matching and pass that info on to the printer. The tricky part is that
this additional work isn't always needed. Ultimately, this means a
serious re-design of the interface between searching and printing. Sigh.
The way this fix works is to smuggle the underlying buffer used by the
searcher through into the printer. Since these bugs only impact
multi-line search (otherwise, searches are only limited to matches
across a single line), and since multi-line search always requires
having the entire file contents in a single contiguous slice (memory
mapped or on the heap), it follows that the buffer we pass through when
we need it is, in fact, the entire haystack. So this commit refactors
the printer's regex searching to use that buffer instead of the intended
bundle of bytes containing just the relevant matching portions of that
same buffer.
There is one last little hiccup: PCRE2 doesn't seem to have a way to
specify an ending position for a search. So when we re-run the search to
find matches, we can't say, "but don't search past here." Since the
buffer is likely to contain the entire file, we really cannot do
anything here other than specify a fixed upper bound on the number of
bytes to search. So if look-ahead goes more than N bytes beyond the
match, this code will break by simply being unable to find the match. In
practice, this is probably pretty rare. I believe that if we did a
better fix for this bug by fixing the interfaces, then we'd probably try
to have PCRE2 find the pertinent matches up front so that it never needs
to re-discover them.
Fixes#1412
This commit fixes a subtle bug in multi-line replacement of line
terminators.
The problem is that even though ripgrep supports multi-line searches, it
is *still* line oriented. It still needs to print line numbers, for
example. For this reason, there are various parts in the printer that
iterate over lines in order to format them into the desired output.
This turns out to be problematic in some cases. #1311 documents one of
those cases (with line numbers enabled to highlight a point later):
$ printf "hello\nworld\n" | rg -n -U "\n" -r "?"
1:hello?
2:world?
But the desired output is this:
$ printf "hello\nworld\n" | rg -n -U "\n" -r "?"
1:hello?world?
At first I had thought that the main problem was that the printer was
taking ownership of writing line terminators, even if the input already
had them. But it's more subtle than that. If we fix that issue, we get
output like this instead:
$ printf "hello\nworld\n" | rg -n -U "\n" -r "?"
1:hello?2:world?
Notice how '2:' is printed before 'world?'. The reason it works this way
is because matches are reported to the printer in a line oriented way.
That is, the printer gets a block of lines. The searcher guarantees that
all matches that start or end in any of those lines also end or start in
another line in that same block. As a result, the printer uses this
assumption: once it has processed a block of lines, the next match will
begin on a new and distinct line. Thus, things like '2:' are printed.
This is generally all fine and good, but an impedance mismatch arises
when replacements are used. Because now, the replacement can be used to
change the "block of lines" approach. Now, in terms of the output, the
subsequent match might actually continue the current line since the
replacement might get rid of the concept of lines altogether.
We can sometimes work around this. For example:
$ printf "hello\nworld\n" | rg -U "\n(.)?" -r '?$1'
hello?world?
Why does this work? It's because the '(.)' after the '\n' causes the
match to overlap between lines. Thus, the searcher guarantees that the
block sent to the printer contains every line.
And there in lay the solution: all we need to do is tweak the multi-line
searcher so that it combines lines with matches that directly adjacent,
instead of requiring at least one byte of overlap. Fixing that solves
the issue above. It does cause some tests to fail:
* The binary3 test in the searcher crate fails because adjacent line
matches are now one part of block, and that block is scanned for
binary data. To preserve the essence of the test, we insert a couple
dummy lines to split up the blocks.
* The JSON CRLF test. It was testing that we didn't output any messages
with an empty 'submatches' array. That is indeed still the case. The
difference is that the messages got combined because of the adjacent
line merging behavior. This is a slight change to the output, but is
still correct.
Fixes#1311
It turns out that the vimgrep format really only wants one line per
match, even when that match spans multiple lines.
We continue to support the previous behavior (print all lines in a
match) in the `grep-printer` crate. We add a new option to enable the
"only print the first line" behavior, and unconditionally enable it in
ripgrep. We can do that because the option has no effect in single-line
mode, since, well, in that case matches are guaranteed to span one line
anyway.
Fixes#1866
These flags permit configuring the bytes used to delimit fields in match
or context lines, where "fields" are things like the file path, line
number, column number and the match/context itself.
Fixes#1842, Closes#1871
Previous, 'foo/**' would match 'foo', but it shouldn't have. In this
case, not matching 'foo' is what is documented and also seems consistent
with other recursive globbing implementations (like that in zsh).
This also updates the prefix extractor to pull 'foo/' out of 'foo/**'.
Closes#1756
This seems like an obvious optimization but becomes critical when
filesystem operations even as simple as stat can result in significant
overheads; an example of this was a bespoke filesystem layer in Windows
that hosted files remotely and would download them on-demand when
particular filesystem operations occurred. Users of this system who
ensured correct file-type fileters were being used could still get
unnecessary file access resulting in large downloads.
Fixes#1657, Closes#1660
In the case where after-context is requested with a match count limit,
we need to be careful not to reset the state tracking the remaining
context lines.
Fixes#1380, Closes#1642
Previously, we were only looking for the UTF-16 BOM for determining
whether to do transcoding or not. But we should also look for the UTF-8
BOM as well.
Fixes#1638, Closes#1697
