When running ripgrep like this:
rg foo > output
we must be careful not to search `output` since ripgrep is actively writing
to it. Searching it can cause massive blowups where the file grows without
bound.
While this is conceptually easy to fix (check the inode of the redirection
and the inode of the file you're about to search), there are a few problems
with it.
First, inodes are a Unix thing, so we need a Windows specific solution to
this as well. To resolve this concern, I created a new crate, `same-file`,
which provides a cross platform abstraction.
Second, stat'ing every file is costly. This is not avoidable on Windows,
but on Unix, we can get the inode number directly from directory traversal.
However, this information wasn't exposed, but now it is (through both the
ignore and walkdir crates).
Fixes#286
This means that ripgrep will no longer try to reset your colors in your
terminal if you kill it while searching. This could result in messing up
the colors in your terminal, and the fix is to simply run some other
command that resets them for you. For example:
$ echo -ne "\033[0m"
The reason why the ^C handling was removed is because it is irrevocably
broken on Windows and is impossible to do correctly and efficiently in
ANSI terminals.
Fixes#281
The point of the ~ dependency was to avoid implicitly increasing the
minimum Rust version required to compile ripgrep. However, clap's policy
is to support at least two prior releases of Rust (which roughly
corresponds to the convention that others use too), and that is probably
good enough.
The problem with using a ~ dependency is that it can make packaging
ripgrep in Linux distros difficult, because it means the packager may be
forced to package multiple compatible versions of the same library.
Fixes#271
This is to ensure that we don't silently update a minor version of clap,
which could include a breaking change.
(An update to 2.19 should be done soon.)
This commit completely guts all of the color handling code and replaces
most of it with two new crates: wincolor and termcolor. wincolor
provides a simple API to coloring using the Windows console and
termcolor provides a platform independent coloring API tuned for
multithreaded command line programs. This required a lot more
flexibility than what the `term` crate provided, so it was dropped.
We instead switch to writing ANSI escape sequences directly and ignore
the TERMINFO database.
In addition to fixing several bugs, this commit also permits end users
to customize colors to a certain extent. For example, this command will
set the match color to magenta and the line number background to yellow:
rg --colors 'match:fg:magenta' --colors 'line:bg:yellow' foo
For tty handling, we've adopted a hack from `git` to do tty detection in
MSYS/mintty terminals. As a result, ripgrep should get both color
detection and piping correct on Windows regardless of which terminal you
use.
Finally, switch to line buffering. Performance doesn't seem to be
impacted and it's an otherwise more user friendly option.
Fixes#37, Fixes#51, Fixes#94, Fixes#117, Fixes#182, Fixes#231
There were two important reasons for the switch:
1. Performance. Docopt does poorly when the argv becomes large, which is
a reasonable common use case for search tools. (e.g., use with xargs)
2. Better failure modes. Clap knows a lot more about how a particular
argv might be invalid, and can therefore provide much clearer error
messages.
While both were important, (1) made it urgent.
Note that since Clap requires at least Rust 1.11, this will in turn
increase the minimum Rust version supported by ripgrep from Rust 1.9 to
Rust 1.11. It is therefore a breaking change, so the soonest release of
ripgrep with Clap will have to be 0.3.
There is also at least one subtle breaking change in real usage.
Previous to this commit, this used to work:
rg -e -foo
Where this would cause ripgrep to search for the string `-foo`. Clap
currently has problems supporting this use case
(see: https://github.com/kbknapp/clap-rs/issues/742),
but it can be worked around by using this instead:
rg -e [-]foo
or even
rg [-]foo
and this still works:
rg -- -foo
This commit also adds Bash, Fish and PowerShell completion files to the
release, fixes a bug that prevented ripgrep from working on file
paths containing invalid UTF-8 and shows short descriptions in the
output of `-h` but longer descriptions in the output of `--help`.
Fixes#136, Fixes#189, Fixes#210, Fixes#230
This adds a new walk type in the `ignore` crate, `WalkParallel`, which
provides a way for recursively iterating over a set of paths in parallel
while respecting various ignore rules.
The API is a bit strange, as a closure producing a closure isn't
something one often sees, but it does seem to work well.
This also allowed us to simplify much of the worker logic in ripgrep
proper, where MultiWorker is now gone.
If a user hits Ctrl-C to exit out of a search in the middle of printing
a line, we don't want to leave the terminal colors screwed up for them.
Catch Ctrl-C using the ctrlc crate, obtain a stdout lock to ensure that
other threads don't continue writing after we do so, reset the terminal,
and exit the program.
Closes#119
This PR introduces a new sub-crate, `ignore`, which primarily provides a
fast recursive directory iterator that respects ignore files like
gitignore and other configurable filtering rules based on globs or even
file types.
This results in a substantial source of complexity moved out of ripgrep's
core and into a reusable component that others can now (hopefully)
benefit from.
While much of the ignore code carried over from ripgrep's core, a
substantial portion of it was rewritten with the following goals in
mind:
1. Reuse matchers built from gitignore files across directory iteration.
2. Design the matcher data structure to be amenable for parallelizing
directory iteration. (Indeed, writing the parallel iterator is the
next step.)
Fixes#9, #44, #45
This commit completes the initial move of glob matching to an external
crate, including fixing up cross platform support, polishing the
external crate for others to use and fixing a number of bugs in the
process.
Fixes#87, #127, #131
Memory maps appear to degrade quite a bit in the presence of multithreading.
Also, switch to lock free data structures for synchronization. Give each
worker an input and output buffer which require no synchronization.
I'm pretty disappointed by the performance of regex sets. They are
apparently spending a lot of their time in construction of the DFA,
which probably means that the DFA is just too big.
It turns out that it's actually faster to build an *additional* normal
regex with the alternation of every glob and use it as a first-pass
filter over every file path. If there's a match, only then do we try the
more expensive RegexSet.