In some rare cases, it was possible for ripgrep's inner literal detector
to extract a set of literals that could produce a false negative. #2884
gives an example: `(?i:e.x|ex)`. In this case, the set extracted can be
discovered by running `rg '(?i:e.x|ex) --trace`:
Seq[E("EX"), E("Ex"), E("eX"), E("ex")]
This extraction leads to building a multi-substring matcher for `EX`,
`Ex`, `eX` and `ex`. Searching the haystack `e-x` produces no match,
and thus, ripgrep shows no matches. But the regex `(?i:e.x|ex)` matches
`e-x`.
The issue at play here was that when two extracted literal sequences
were unioned, we were correctly unioning their "prefix" attribute.
And this in turn leads to those literal sequences being combined
incorrectly via cross product. This case in particular triggers it
because two different optimizations combine to produce an incorrect
result. Firslty, the regex has a common prefix extracted and is
rewritten as `(?i:e(?:.x|x))`. Secondly, the `x` in the first branch of
the alternation has its `prefix` attribute set to `false` (correctly),
which means it can't be cross producted with another concatenation. But
in this case, it is unioned with the `x` from the second branch, and
this results in the union result having `prefix` set to `true`. This
in turn pops up and lets it get cross producted with the `e` prefix,
producing an incorrect literal sequence.
We fix this by changing the implementation of `union` to return
`prefix` set to `true` only when *both* literal sequences being unioned
have `prefix` set to `true`.
Doing this exposed a second bug that was present, but was purely
cosmetic: the extracted literals in this case, after the fix, are
`X` and `x`. They were considered "exact" (i.e., lead to a match),
but of course they are not. Observing an `X` or an `x` does not mean
there is a match. This was fixed by making `choose` always return
an inexact literal sequence. This is perhaps too conservative in
aggregate in some cases, but always correct. The idea here is that if
one is choosing between two concatenations, then it is likely the case
that the sequence returned should be considered inexact. The issue
is that this can lead to avoiding cross products in some cases that
would otherwise be correct. This is bad because it means extracting
shorter literals in some cases. (In general, the longer the literal the
better.) But we prioritize correctness for now and fix it. You can see
a few tests where this shortens some extracted literals.
Fixes#2884
... it turns out that rustembedded/cross:armv7-unknown-linux-musleabi
doesn't exist. And looking more closely, it looks like the Cross project
has decided to shake things up and publish images to ghcr instead. So we
migrate everything over to that.
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
We drop our MIPS target because it no longer works.[1] We were
previously using it as a means of testing ripgrep in a big endian
environment. So to achieve that without MIPS, we test on powerpc64 and
s390x. (No particular reason to do both, but why not.)
We also add aarch64 as a proxy for at least ensuring everything works
for the same architecture as Apple silicon. It's not a guarantee that
everything works, but it seems better than nothing until we can actually
test Apple silicon in CI.
[1]: c788378d6f
The transient failures appear to be persisting and they are quite
difficult to debug. So include a full directory listing in the output of
every test failure.
The reason why it wasn't working was the integration tests. Namely, the
integration tests attempted to execute the 'rg' binary directly from
inside cross's docker container. But this obviously doesn't work when
'rg' was compiled for a totally different architecture.
Cross normally does this by hooking into the Rust test infrastructure
and causing tests to run with 'qemu'. But our integration tests didn't
do that. This commit fixes our test setup to check for cross's
environment variable that points to the 'qemu' binary. Once we have
that, we just use 'qemu-foo rg' instead of 'rg'. Piece of cake.
This is why I was so intent on clearing the PR queue. This will
effectively invalidate all existing patches, so I wanted to start from a
clean slate.
We do make one little tweak: we put the default type definitions in
their own file and tell rustfmt to keep its grubby mits off of it. We
also sort it lexicographically and hopefully will enforce that from here
on.
I'm surprised this wasn't caught until now, but if a test directory
already exists, then it was reused. This can result in hard to debug
problems with tests when, e.g., file names are changed and a recursive
search is executed.
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 basically rewrites every integration test. We reduce the amount of
magic involved here in terms of which arguments are being passed to
ripgrep processes. To make up for the boiler plate saved by the magic,
we make the Dir (formerly WorkDir) type a bit nicer to use, along with a
new TestCommand that wraps a std::process::Command. In exchange, we get
tests that are easier to read and write.
We also run every test with the `--pcre2` flag to make sure that works,
when PCRE2 is available.
