If a literal is entirely whitespace, then it's quite likely that it is
very common. So when that case occurs, just don't do (inner) literal
optimizations at all.
The regex engine may still make sub-optimal decisions here, but that's a
problem for another day.
Fixes#1087
The purpose of this flag is to force ripgrep to ignore all --ignore-file
flags (whether they come before or after --no-ignore-files).
This flag can be overridden with --ignore-files.
Fixes#1466
It doesn't really belong in the man page since it's an artifact of a
build/runtime configuration. Moreover, it inhibits reproducible builds.
Fixes#1441
This permits switching between the different regex engine modes that
ripgrep supports. The purpose of this flag is to make it easier to
extend ripgrep with additional regex engines.
Closes#1488, Closes#1502
Due to how walkdir works if symlinks are not followed, symlinks to
directories are seen as simple files by ripgrep. This caused a panic
in some cases due to receiving a WalkEvent::Exit event without a
corresponding WalkEvent::Dir event.
This is fixed by looking at the metadata of the file in the case of a
symlink to determine if it's a directory. We are careful to only do
this stat check when the depth of the entry is 0, as this bug only
impacts us when 1) we aren't following symlinks generally and 2) the
user provides a symlinked directory that we do follow as a top-level
path to search.
Fixes#1389, Closes#1397
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
This appears to be another transcription bug from copying this code from
the prefix literal detection from inside the regex crate. Namely, when
it comes to inner literals, we only want to treat counted repetition as
two separate cases: the case when the minimum match is 0 and the case
when the minimum match is more than 0. In the former case, we treat
`e{0,n}` as `e*` and in the latter we treat `e{m,n}` where `m >= 1` as
just `e`.
We could definitely do better here. e.g., This means regexes like
`(foo){10}` will only have `foo` extracted as a literal, where searching
for the full literal would likely be faster.
The actual bug here was that we were not implementing this logic
correctly. Namely, we weren't always "cutting" the literals in the
second case to prevent them from being expanded.
Fixes#1319, Closes#1367
Git looks for this file in GIT_COMMON_DIR, which is usually the same
as GIT_DIR (.git). However, when searching inside a linked worktree,
.git is usually a file that contains the path of the actual git dir,
which in turn contains a file "commondir" which references the directory
where info/exclude may reside, alongside other configuration shared across
all worktrees. This directory is usually the git dir of the main worktree.
Unlike git this does *not* read environment variables GIT_DIR and
GIT_COMMON_DIR, because it is not clear how to interpret them when
searching multiple repositories.
Fixes#1445, Closes#1446
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
Previously, ripgrep would always defer to the regex engine's capturing
matches in order to implement word matching. Namely, ripgrep would
determine the correct match offsets via a capturing group, since the
word regex is itself generated from the user supplied regex.
Unfortunately, the regex engine's capturing mode is still fairly slow,
so this commit adds a fast path to avoid capturing mode in the vast
majority of cases. See comments in the code for details.
When the -w/--word-regexp was used, ripgrep would in many cases fail to
apply literal optimizations. This occurs specifically when the regex
given by the user is an alternation of literals with no common prefixes
or suffixes, e.g.,
rg -w 'foo|bar|baz|quux'
In this case, the inner literal detector fails. Normally, this would
result in literal prefixes being detected by the regex engine. But
because of the -w/--word-regexp flag, the actual regex that we run ends
up looking like this:
(^|\W)(foo|bar|baz|quux)($|\W)
which of course defeats any prefix or suffix literal optimizations in
the regex crate's somewhat naive extractor. (A better extractor could
still do literal optimizations in the above case.)
So this commit fixes this by falling back to prefix or suffix literals
when they're available instead of prematurely giving up and assuming the
regex engine will do the rest.
This fixes an interesting performance bug where the inner literal
extractor would sometimes choose a sub-optimal literal. For example,
consider the regex:
\x20+Sherlock Holmes\x20+
(The `\x20` is the ASCII code for a space character, which we use here
to just make it clearer. It otherwise does not matter.)
Previously, this would see the initial \x20 and then stop collecting
literals after the `+` repetition operator. This was because the inner
literal detector was adapter from the prefix literal detector, which had
to stop here. Namely, while \x20S would be a valid prefix (for example),
\x20\x20S would also be a valid prefix. As would \x20\x20\x20S and so
on. So the prefix detector would have to stop at the repetition
operator. Otherwise, only searching for \x20S could potentially scan
farther then the starting position of the next match.
However, for inner literals, this calculus no longer makes sense. We can
freely search for, e.g., \x20S without missing matches that start with
\x20\x20S precisely because we know this is an inner literal which may
not correspond to the start of a match.
With this fix, the literal that is now detected is
\x20Sherlock Holmes\x20
Which is much better. We achieve this by no longer "cutting" literals
after seeing a `+` repetition operator. Instead, we permit literals to
continue to be extended.
The reason why this is important is because using \x20 as the literal to
search for is generally bad juju since it is so common. In fact, we
should probably add more logic here to either avoid such things or give
up entirely on the inner literal optimization if it detected a literal
that we think is very common. But we punt on such things here.
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
This commit adds a simple `.exists()` check for `.gitignore`,
`.ignore`, and other similar files before actually calling
`File::open(…)` in `GitIgnoreBuilder::add`.
The reason is that a simple existence check via `stat` can be faster
than actually trying to `open` the file, see
https://stackoverflow.com/a/12774387/704831. As we typically expect(?)
the number of directories *without* ignore files to be much larger
than the number of directories *with* ignore files, this leads to an
overall speedup.
The performance gain is not huge for `rg`, but can be quite significant
if more `.gitignore`-like files are added via
`add_custom_ignore_filename`. The speedup is *larger* for folders with
*low* files-per-directory ratios.
Note though that we do not do this check on Windows until a specific
analysis there suggests this is beneficial. Namely, Windows generally
has slower file system operations, so it's not clear whether this
speculative check is actually a benefit or not.
Benchmark results
-----------------
`rg --files` in my home folder (200k results, 6.5 files per directory):
| Command | Mean [ms] | Min [ms] | Max [ms] | Relative |
|:---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| `./rg-master --files` | 396.4 ± 3.2 | 390.9 | 400.0 | 1.05 |
| `./rg-feature --files` | 376.0 ± 3.6 | 369.3 | 383.5 | 1.00 |
`rg --files --hidden` in my home folder (800k results, 5.4
files per directory)
| Command | Mean [s] | Min [s] | Max [s] | Relative |
|:---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| `./rg-master --files --hidden` | 1.575 ± 0.012 | 1.560 | 1.597 | 1.06 |
| `./rg-feature --files --hidden` | 1.479 ± 0.011 | 1.464 | 1.496 | 1.00 |
`rg --files` in the chromium-79.0.3915.2 source tree (300k results, 12.7 files per
directory)
| Command | Mean [ms] | Min [ms] | Max [ms] | Relative |
|:---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| `~/rg-master --files` | 445.2 ± 5.3 | 435.6 | 453.0 | 1.04 |
| `~/rg-feature --files` | 428.9 ± 7.0 | 418.2 | 440.0 | 1.00 |
`rg --files` in the linux-5.3 source tree (65k results, 15.1
files per directory)
| Command | Mean [ms] | Min [ms] | Max [ms] | Relative |
|:---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| `./rg-master --files` | 94.5 ± 1.9 | 89.8 | 98.5 | 1.02 |
| `./rg-feature --files` | 92.6 ± 2.7 | 88.4 | 98.7 | 1.00 |
Closes#1381
If a preprocessor command could not be started, we now show some
additional context with the error message. Previously, it showed
something like this:
some/file: No such file or directory (os error 2)
Which is itself pretty misleading. Now it shows:
some/file: preprocessor command could not start: '"nonexist" "some/file"': No such file or directory (os error 2)
Fixes#1302
In an effort to strip line terminators, we assumed their existence. But
a pattern file may not end with a line terminator, so we shouldn't
unconditionally strip them.
We fix this by moving to bstr's line handling, which does this for us
automatically.
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 sets up the release announcement and briefly describes the
versioning change. The actual version change itself won't happen until
the release.
Closes#1172
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 brings in an updated `encoding_rs` crate that uses `packed_simd`,
which compiles on the latest nightly. Compilation times do appear to be
impacted significantly though.
Fixes#1175 (again)
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
Add a note about it to the README.
Also, remove mention of the avx-accel feature since it no longer exists.
(bytecount now uses runtime detection to enable SIMD support.)
Fixes#1175
Previously, `man gitignore` specified that `**` was invalid unless it
was used in one of a few specific circumstances, i.e., `**`, `a/**`,
`**/b` or `a/**/b`. That is, `**` always had to be surrounded by either
a path separator or the beginning/end of the pattern.
It turns out that git itself has treated `**` outside the above contexts
as valid for quite a while, so there was an inconsistency between the
spec `man gitignore` and the implementation, and it wasn't clear which
was actually correct.
@okdana filed a bug against git[1] and got this fixed. The spec was wrong,
which has now been fixed [2] and updated[2].
This commit brings ripgrep in line with git and treats `**` outside of
the above contexts as two consecutive `*` patterns. We deprecate the
`InvalidRecursive` error since it is no longer used.
Fixes#373, Fixes#1098
[1] - https://public-inbox.org/git/C16A9F17-0375-42F9-90A9-A92C9F3D8BBA@dana.is
[2] - 627186d020
[3] - https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
This commit fixes a bug where both of the following commands always
reported an error:
rg --files-with-matches foo file
rg --files-without-match foo file
In particular, the printer was erroneously respecting the `path` option
even the the summary kind was `PathWithMatch` or `PathWithoutMatch`. The
documented behavior is that those summary kinds always require a path,
and thus, the `path` option has no effect. We fix this by correcting the
case analysis.
This also fixes a bug where the exit code for `--files-without-match`
was not set correctly. We update the printer's `has_match` method to
report the correct value.
Fixes#1106, Closes#1130
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
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 commit fixes a bug where the first path always reported itself as
as symlink via `path_is_symlink`.
Part of this fix includes updating walkdir to 2.2.1, which also includes
a corresponding bug fix.
Fixes#984
This commit beefs up the package metadata used by the 'cargo deb' tool to
produce a binary dpkg. In particular, we now include ripgrep's man page.
This commit includes a new script, 'ci/build_deb.sh', which will handle
the build process for a dpkg, which has become a bit more nuanced than
just running 'cargo deb'. We don't (yet) run this script in CI.
Fixes#842
This also updates some code to make use of our more liberal versioning
requirement, including the use of crossbeam-channel instead of the MsQueue
from the older an unmaintained crossbeam 0.3. This does regrettably add
a sizable number of dependencies, however, compile times seem mostly
unaffected.
Closes#1019
This commit updates the CHANGELOG to reflect all the work done to make
libripgrep a reality.
* Closes#162 (libripgrep)
* Closes#176 (multiline search)
* Closes#188 (opt-in PCRE2 support)
* Closes#244 (JSON output)
* Closes#416 (Windows CRLF support)
* Closes#917 (trim prefix whitespace)
* Closes#993 (add --null-data flag)
* Closes#997 (--passthru works with --replace)
* Fixes#2 (memory maps and context handling work)
* Fixes#200 (ripgrep stops when pipe is closed)
* Fixes#389 (more intuitive `-w/--word-regexp`)
* Fixes#643 (detection of stdin on Windows is better)
* Fixes#441, Fixes#690, Fixes#980 (empty matching lines are weird)
* Fixes#764 (coalesce color escapes)
* Fixes#922 (memory maps failing is no big deal)
* Fixes#937 (color escapes no longer used for empty matches)
* Fixes#940 (--passthru does not impact exit status)
* Fixes#1013 (show runtime CPU features in --version output)
This commit updates the logic for finding the value of git's
`core.excludesFile` configuration parameter. Namely, we now check
`$XDG_CONFIG_DIR/git/config` in addition to `$HOME/.gitconfig` (where
the latter overrules the former on a knob-by-knob basis).
Fixes#995
Generally speaking, ripgrep prevents the case of not having any patterns
via its arg parsing. However, it is possible for users to provide a file
of patterns via the `-f` flag. If that file is empty, then ripgrep has
nothing to search for and therefore should not ever produce any match.
One way of fixing this might be to replace the absence of patterns with
a pattern that can never match, but this still requires opening and
searching through every file, which is quite a waste. Instead, we detect
this case explicitly and quit early.
Fixes#900
This removes logic from the decompressor for skipping tar archives. This
logic was originally added under the assumption that we probably want to
avoid the cost of reading them. However, this is generally inconsistent
with how ripgrep treats files like tar archives: it should search them
and do binary detection like normal.
Fixes#918
This commit adds a new --no-ignore-global flag that permits disabling
the use of global gitignore filtering. Global gitignores are generally
found in `$HOME/.config/git/ignore`, but its location can be configured
via git's `core.excludesFile` option.
Closes#934
This commit fixes an interesting bug in the `ignore` crate where it
would basically respect any `.gitignore` file anywhere (including global
gitignores in `~/.config/git/ignore`), regardless of whether we were
searching in a git repository or not. This commit rectifies that
behavior to only respect gitignore rules when in a git repo.
The key change here is to move the logic of whether to traverse parents
into the directory matcher rather than putting the onus on the directory
traverser. In particular, we now need to traverse parent directories in
more cases than we previously did, since we need to determine whether
we're in a git repository or not.
Fixes#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
1.23.0 is the first Rust release of 2018 and is around half a year old,
which seems old enough to move to. This also lets us bring in encoding_rs
0.8, which includes performance optimizations.
This commit makes Gitignore::empty a bit faster by avoiding allocation
and manually specializing the implementation instead of routing it through
the GitignoreBuilder.
This helps improve uses of ripgrep that traverse *many* directories, and
in particular, when the use of ignores is disabled via command line
switches.
Fixes#835, Closes#836
This commit removes the previous smart case detection logic and replaces
it with detection based on the regex AST. This particular AST is a faithful
representation of the concrete syntax, which lets us be very precise in
how we handle it.
Closes#851
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
