This adds a universal --no-unicode flag that is intended to work for all
supported regex engines. There is no point in retaining
--no-pcre2-unicode, so we make them aliases to the new flags and
deprecate them.
This flag prevents ripgrep from requiring one to search a git repository
in order to respect git-related ignore rules (global, .gitignore and
local excludes). This actually corresponds to behavior ripgrep had long
ago, but #934 changed that. It turns out that users were relying on this
buggy behavior. In most cases, fixing it as simple as converting one's
rules to .ignore or .rgignore files. Unfortunately, there are other use
cases---like Perforce automatically respecting .gitignore files---that
make a strong case for ripgrep to at least support this.
The UX of a flag like this is absolutely atrocious. It's so obscure that
it's really not worth explicitly calling it out anywhere. Moreover, the
error cases that occur when this flag isn't used (but its behavior is
desirable) will not be intuitive, do not seem easily detectable and will
not guide users to this flag. Nevertheless, the motivation for this is
just barely strong enough for me to begrudgingly accept this.
Fixes#1414, Closes#1416
It turns out that querying the CWD while in a directory that no longer
exists results in an error. Since the CWD is queried every time ripgrep
starts---whether it needs it or not---for dealing with glob matching,
ripgrep winds up being completely useless inside a non-existent
directory.
We fix this in a few different ways:
* Firstly, if std::env::current_dir() fails, then we fall back to trying
to read the `PWD` environment variable.
* If that fails, that we return a more sensible error message so that a
user can at least react to the problem. Previously, the error message
was inscrutable.
* Finally, we try to avoid the problem altogether by building empty glob
matchers if not globs were provided, thus side-stepping querying the
CWD completely.
Fixes#1291, Closes#1400
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
This flag, when used in conjunction with --count or --count-matches,
will print a result for each file searched even if there were zero
matches in that file. This is off by default but can be enabled to make
ripgrep behave more like grep.
This also clarifies some of the defaults for the
grep-printer::SummaryBuilder type.
Closes#1370, Closes#1405
--context-separator='' still adds a new line separator, which could
still potentially be useful. So we add a new `--no-context-separator`
flag that completely disables context separators even when the -A/-B/-C
context flags are used.
Closes#1390
Specifically, when searching stdin, if the current directory has a
directory named `-`, then the `--with-filename` flag would automatically
be turned on. This is because `--with-filename` is automatically enabled
when ripgrep is given a single path that is a directory. When ripgrep is
given empty arguments, and if it is searching stdin, then its default
path list is just simple `["-"]`. The `is_dir` check passes, and
`--with-filename` gets enabled.
This commit fixes the problem by checking whether the path is `-` first.
If so, then we assume it isn't a directory. This is fine, since if it is
a directory and one asks to search it explicitly, then ripgrep will
interpret `-` as stdin anyway (which is arguably a bug on its own, but
probably not one worth fixing).
Fixes#1223, Closes#1292
This flag, when set, will automatically dispatch to PCRE2 if the given
regex cannot be compiled by Rust's regex engine. If both engines fail to
compile the regex, then both errors are surfaced.
Closes#1155
The default stack size is 32KB, and this increases it to 10MB. 32KB is
pretty paltry in the environments in which ripgrep runs, and 10MB is
easily afforded as a maximum size. (The size limit we set for Rust's
regex engine is considerably larger.)
This was motivated due to the fack that JIT stack limits have been
observed to be hit in the wild:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/64606
This commit adds support for showing a preview of long lines. While the
default still remains as completely suppressing the entire line, this
new functionality will show the first N graphemes of a matching line,
including the number of matches that are suppressed.
This was unfortunately a fairly invasive change to the printer that
required a bit of refactoring. On the bright side, the single line
and multi-line coloring are now more unified than they were before.
Closes#1078
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 makes the case of searching for a dictionary of a very large number
of literals much much faster. (~10x or so.) In particular, we achieve this
by short-circuiting the construction of a full regex when we know we have
a simple alternation of literals. Building the regex for a large dictionary
(>100,000 literals) turns out to be quite slow, even if it internally will
dispatch to Aho-Corasick.
Even that isn't quite enough. It turns out that even *parsing* such a regex
is quite slow. So when the -F/--fixed-strings flag is set, we short
circuit regex parsing completely and jump straight to Aho-Corasick.
We aren't quite as fast as GNU grep here, but it's much closer (less than
2x slower).
In general, this is somewhat of a hack. In particular, it seems plausible
that this optimization could be implemented entirely in the regex engine.
Unfortunately, the regex engine's internals are just not amenable to this
at all, so it would require a larger refactoring effort. For now, it's
good enough to add this fairly simple hack at a higher level.
Unfortunately, if you don't pass -F/--fixed-strings, then ripgrep will
be slower, because of the aforementioned missing optimization. Moreover,
passing flags like `-i` or `-S` will cause ripgrep to abandon this
optimization and fall back to something potentially much slower. Again,
this fix really needs to happen inside the regex engine, although we
might be able to special case -i when the input literals are pure ASCII
via Aho-Corasick's `ascii_case_insensitive`.
Fixes#497, Fixes#838
This commit adds a new encoding feature where the -E/--encoding flag
will now accept a value of 'none'. When given this value, all encoding
related machinery is disabled and ripgrep will search the raw bytes of
the file, including the BOM if it's present.
Closes#1207, Closes#1208
This fixes what appears to be a pretty egregious regression where the
`-F/--fixed-strings` flag wasn't be applied to patterns supplied via
the `-f/--file` flag. The same bug existed for the `-x/--line-regexp`
flag as well, which we fix here.
Fixes#1176
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
The --ignore-file-case-insensitive flag causes all
.gitignore/.rgignore/.ignore files to have their globs matched without
regard for case. Because this introduces a potentially significant
performance regression, this is always disabled by default. Users that
need case insensitive matching can enable it on a case by case basis.
Closes#1164, Closes#1170
When a "\n literal is not allowed" error is reported, ripgrep will now
suggest the use of the -U/--multiline flag, which enables matching
newlines.
Fixes#1055
The --pre-glob flag is like the --glob flag, except it applies to filtering
files through the preprocessor instead of for search. This makes it
possible to apply the preprocessor to only a small subset of files, which
can greatly reduce the process overhead of using a preprocessor when
searching large directories.
These flags provide granular control over ripgrep's buffering strategy.
The --line-buffered flag can be genuinely useful in certain types of shell
pipelines. The --block-buffered flag has a murkier use case, but we add it
for completeness.
This commit moves a lot of "utility" code from ripgrep core into
grep-cli. Any one of these things might not be worth creating a new
crate, but combining everything together results in a fair number of a
convenience routines that make up a decent sized crate.
There is potentially more we could move into the crate, but much of what
remains in ripgrep core is almost entirely dealing with the number of
flags we support.
In the course of doing moving things to the grep-cli crate, we clean up
a lot of gunk and improve failure modes in a number of cases. In
particular, we've fixed a bug where other processes could deadlock if
they write too much to stderr.
Fixes#990
This removes ripgrep-specific code for filtering files that correspond to
stdout and instead uses the 'ignore' crate's functionality for doing the
same.
These flags each accept one of five choices: none, path, modified,
accessed or created. The value indicates how the results are sorted.
For --sort, results are sorted in ascending order where as for --sortr,
results are sorted in descending order.
Closes#404
This commit adds a 'same_file_system' option to the walk builder. For
single threaded walking, it defers to the walkdir crate, which has the
same option. The bulk of this commit implements this flag for the parallel
walker. We add one very feeble test for this.
The parallel walker is now officially a complete mess.
Closes#321
This commit does the work to delete the old `grep` crate and effectively
rewrite most of ripgrep core to use the new libripgrep crates. The new
`grep` crate is now a facade that collects the various crates that make
up libripgrep.
The most complex part of ripgrep core is now arguably the translation
between command line parameters and the library options, which is
ultimately where we want to be.
Generally speaking, ripgrep prevents the case of not having any patterns
via its arg parsing. However, it is possible for users to provide a file
of patterns via the `-f` flag. If that file is empty, then ripgrep has
nothing to search for and therefore should not ever produce any match.
One way of fixing this might be to replace the absence of patterns with
a pattern that can never match, but this still requires opening and
searching through every file, which is quite a waste. Instead, we detect
this case explicitly and quit early.
Fixes#900
This commit adds a new --no-ignore-global flag that permits disabling
the use of global gitignore filtering. Global gitignores are generally
found in `$HOME/.config/git/ignore`, but its location can be configured
via git's `core.excludesFile` option.
Closes#934
This commit improves the error message when --path-separator fails. Namely,
it prints the separator it got and also prints a notice for Windows users
for common failure modes.
Fixes#957
The preprocessor flag accepts a command program and executes this
program for every input file that is searched. Instead of searching the
file directly, ripgrep will instead search the stdout contents of the
program.
Closes#978, Closes#981
Specifically, this will use a buffered writer when not printing to a tty.
This fixes a long standing performance regression where ripgrep would
slow down dramatically if it needed to report a lot of matches.
Fixes#955
This commit does what no software project has ever done before: we've
outright removed a flag with no possible way to recapture its
functionality.
This flag presents numerous problems in that it never really worked well
in the first place, and completely falls over when ripgrep uses the
--no-heading output format. Well meaning users want ripgrep to fix this
by getting into the alignment business by buffering all output, but that
is a line that I refuse to cross.
Fixes#795
The new --no-ignore-messages flag permits suppressing errors related to
parsing .gitignore or .ignore files. These error messages can be somewhat
annoying since they can surface from repositories that one has no control
over.
Fixes#646
This update brings with it many bug fixes:
* Better error messages are printed overall. We also include
explicit call out for unsupported features like backreferences
and look-around.
* Regexes like `\s*{` no longer emit incomprehensible errors.
* Unicode escape sequences, such as `\u{..}` are now supported.
For the most part, this upgrade was done in a straight-forward way. We
resist the urge to refactor the `grep` crate, in anticipation of it
being rewritten anyway.
Note that we removed the `--fixed-strings` suggestion whenever a regex
syntax error occurs. In practice, I've found that it results in a lot of
false positives, and I believe that its use is not as paramount now that
regex parse errors are much more readable.
Closes#268, Closes#395, Closes#702, Closes#853
This update brings with it a new feature of the regex crate which will
now use SIMD optimizations automatically at runtime with no necessary
compile time flags. All that's needed is to enable the `unstable` feature.
Other crates, such as bytecount and encoding_rs, are still using the
old-style SIMD support, so we leave the simd-accel and avx-accel features.
However, the binaries we distribute on Github no longer have those
features enabled, which makes them truly portable.
Fixes#135
This commit provides basic support for a --stats flag, which will print
various aggregate statistics about a search after all of the results
have been printed. This is mostly intended to support a similar feature
found in the Silver Searcher. Note though that we don't emit the total
bytes searched; this is a first pass at an implementation and we can
improve upon it later.
Closes#411, Closes#799
Namely, when ripgrep is asked to count things and is also asked to print
every match on its own line, then we should just automatically count the
matches and not the lines. This is a departure from how GNU grep behaves,
but there is a compelling argument to be made that GNU grep's behavior
doesn't make a lot of sense.
Note that since this changes the behavior of combining two existing
flags, this is a breaking change.
This commit introduces a new flag, --count-matches, which will cause
ripgrep to report a total count of all matches instead of a count of
total lines matched.
Closes#566, Closes#814
This commit adds support for printing 0-based byte offset before each
line. We handle corner cases such as `-o/--only-matching` and
`-C/--context` as well.
Closes#812
This commit makes a small tweak to the --max-columns flag. Namely, if
the value of the flag is 0, then ripgrep behaves as-if the flag were
absent.
This is useful in the context of ripgrep reading configuration from the
environment. For example, an end user might set --max-columns=150, but we
should permit the user to disable this setting when needed. Using -M0 is
a nice way to do that.
We do this because a zero value for --max-columns isn't particularly
meaningful. We do leave the --max-count, --max-filesize and --maxdepth
flags alone though, since a zero value for those flags is potentially
meaningful. (--max-count even has tests for ripgrep's behavior when
given a value of 0.)
