This is somewhat non-standard, but it seems nice on the surface: short
flag names are in short supply, --hidden is probably somewhat common and
-. has an obvious connection with how hidden files are named on Unix.
Closes#1680
This comes up as a corner case where folks provide -e/--regexp in a
configuration file and then expect to be able to run 'rg' with no args.
However, ripgrep fails because it still expects at least one pattern
even though one was specified in the config file.
This occurs because ripgrep has to parse its CLI parameters before
reading the config file. (For log output settings and to handle the
--no-config flag.) This initial parse will fail if there are no patterns
specified.
The only way to solve this that I can see is to somehow relax the
requirements of the initial parse. But this is problematic because we
would still need to enforce those requirements in cases where we don't
do a second parse (when no config file is present).
All in all, this doesn't seem like a problem that is worth solving.
Closes#1730
This commit adds a new --no-ignore-exclude flag that permits disabling
the use of .git/info/exclude filtering. Local exclusions are manual
configurations to a repository and are not shared, so it is sometimes
useful to disable to get a consistent view of a repository.
This also adds a new section to the man page that describes automatic
filtering.
Closes#1420
Specifically, paths contains a `/` are not allowed to match any
other slash in the path, even as a prefix. So `!.git` is the correct
incantation for ignoring a `.git` directory that occurs anywhere
in the path.
This commit attempts to surface binary filtering in a slightly more
user friendly way. Namely, before, ripgrep would silently stop
searching a file if it detected a NUL byte, even if it had previously
printed a match. This can lead to the user quite reasonably assuming
that there are no more matches, since a partial search is fairly
unintuitive. (ripgrep has this behavior by default because it really
wants to NOT search binary files at all, just like it doesn't search
gitignored or hidden files.)
With this commit, if a match has already been printed and ripgrep detects
a NUL byte, then it will print a warning message indicating that the search
stopped prematurely.
Moreover, this commit adds a new flag, --binary, which causes ripgrep to
stop filtering binary files, but in a way that still avoids dumping
binary data into terminals. That is, the --binary flag makes ripgrep
behave more like grep's default behavior.
For files explicitly specified in a search, e.g., `rg foo some-file`,
then no binary filtering is applied (just like no gitignore and no
hidden file filtering is applied). Instead, ripgrep behaves as if you
gave the --binary flag for all explicitly given files.
This was a fairly invasive change, and potentially increases the UX
complexity of ripgrep around binary files. (Before, there were two
binary modes, where as now there are three.) However, ripgrep is now a
bit louder with warning messages when binary file detection might
otherwise be hiding potential matches, so hopefully this is a net
improvement.
Finally, the `-uuu` convenience now maps to `--no-ignore --hidden
--binary`, since this is closer to the actualy intent of the
`--unrestricted` flag, i.e., to reduce ripgrep's smart filtering. As a
consequence, `rg -uuu foo` should now search roughly the same number of
bytes as `grep -r foo`, and `rg -uuua foo` should search roughly the
same number of bytes as `grep -ra foo`. (The "roughly" weasel word is
used because grep's and ripgrep's binary file detection might differ
somewhat---perhaps based on buffer sizes---which can impact exactly what
is and isn't searched.)
See the numerous tests in tests/binary.rs for intended behavior.
Fixes#306, Fixes#855
This lets us implement correct Unicode trimming and also simplifies the
parsing logic a bit. This also removes the last platform specific bits of
code in ripgrep core.
This changes how ripgrep emit exit status codes. In particular, any error
that occurs while searching will now cause ripgrep to emit a `2` exit
code, where as it previously would emit either a `0` or a `1` code based
on whether it matched or not. That is, ripgrep would only emit a `2` exit
code for a catastrophic error.
This tweak includes additional logic that GNU grep adheres to, which seems
like good sense. Namely, if -q/--quiet is given, and an error occurs and
a match occurs, then ripgrep will emit a `0` exit code.
Closes#1159
Previously, we relied on clap to handle printing either an error
message, or --help/--version output, in addition to setting the exit
status code. Unfortunately, for --help/--version output, clap was
panicking if the write failed, which can happen in fairly common
scenarios via a broken pipe error. e.g., `rg -h | head`.
We fix this by using clap's "safe" API and doing the printing ourselves.
We also set the exit code to `2` when an invalid command has been given.
Fixes#1125 and partially addresses #1159
This commit cleans up the README and splits portions of it out into
a user guide (GUIDE.md) and a FAQ (FAQ.md). The README now provides a
small list of documentation "quick" links to various parts of the docs.
This commit also does a few other minor touchups.
This commit uses the recent refactoring for defining flags to
automatically generate a man page. This finally allows us to define the
documentation for each flag in a single place.
The man page is generated on every build, if and only if `asciidoc` is
installed. When generated, it is placed in Cargo's `OUT_DIR` directory,
which is the same place that shell completions live.
