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 is a somewhat basic implementation of `-f-` (#7), with unit tests.
Changes include:
1. The internals of the `pattern` function have been refactored to avoid
code duplication, but there's a lot more we could do. Right now we
read the entire pattern list into a `Vec`.
2. There's now a `WorkDir::pipe` command that allows sending standard
input to `rg` when testing.
Not implemented: aho-corasick.
Previously, ignore::WalkParallel would invoke the callback for all
*explicitly* given file paths in a single thread, which effectively
meant that `rg pattern foo bar baz ...` didn't actually search foo, bar
and baz in parallel.
The code was structured that way to avoid spinning up workers if no
directory paths were given. The original intention was probably to have
a separate pool of threads responsible for searching, but ripgrep ended
up just reusing the ignore::WalkParallel workers themselves for searching,
and thereby subjected to its sub-par performance in this case.
The code has been restructured so that file paths are sent to the workers,
which brings back parallelism.
Fixes#226
This flag is similar to what's found in grep: it will suppress all error
messages, such as those shown when a particular file couldn't be read.
Closes#149
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.
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
It didn't make sense for --quiet to be part of the printer, because --quiet
doesn't just mean "don't print," it also means, "stop after the first
match is found." This needs to be wired all the way up through directory
traversal, and it also needs to cause all of the search workers to quit
as well. We do it with an atomic that is only checked with --quiet is
given.
Fixes#116.
If no paths are given to ripgrep, only read from stdin if it's a file or
a FIFO. In particular, if something like `rg foo < /dev/null` is used,
then don't try to read from stdin.
Fixes#35, #81
Closes#26.
Acts like --count but emits only the paths of files with matches,
suitable for piping to xargs. Both mmap and no-mmap searches terminate
after the first match is found. Documentation updated and tests added.
I don't like having multiple flags do the same thing, but -u, -uu and -uuu
are much easier to remember, particularly with -uuu meaning "search
everything."
For example, when only a single file (or stdin) is being searched, then we
should be able to print directly to the terminal instead of intermediate
buffers. (The buffers are only necessary for parallelism.)
Closes#4.
We do this by avoiding using a RegexSet (*sigh*). In particular, file
type matching has much simpler semantics than gitignore files, so we don't
actually need to care which file type matched. Therefore, we can get away
with a single regex with a giant alternation.
I though plain `read` had usurped them, but when searching a very small
number of files, mmaps can be around 20% faster on Linux. It'd be really
unfortunate to leave that on the table.
Mmap searching doesn't support contexts yet, but we probably don't really
care. And duplicating that logic doesn't sound fun. Without contexts, mmap
searching is delightfully simple.
- Refactored interaction between CLI args and rest of xrep.
- Filling in a lot more options, including file type filtering.
- Fixing some bugs in globbing/ignoring.
- More documentation.
