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BurntSushi / ripgrep

ripgrep recursively searches directories for a regex pattern while respecting your gitignore
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add fossil support for ignored files #1216

Closed minusf closed 5 years ago

minusf commented 5 years ago

What version of ripgrep are you using?

ripgrep 0.10.0

How did you install ripgrep?

brew

What operating system are you using ripgrep on?

macOS

Describe your question, feature request, or bug.

It would be great if ripgrep could extend it's ignored files support for fossil scm. Fossil ignore file is: .fossil-settings/ignore-glob

The glob patterns are not the same though. One difference I have noticed for example was not being able to use /venv -> venv/.

BurntSushi commented 5 years ago

While in principle I agree it would be nice, in practice, I don't think this is worth doing. Getting the ignore rules correct is one of the biggest sources of bugs in ripgrep, and that's considering that we're only trying to handle one source control system. If I were to devote resources to supporting another source control system, it wouldn't be Fossil, it would probably be Mercurial, just based on my perception of how many people use it.

My suggestion would be to just translate your Fossil rules to an .ignore file.

minusf commented 5 years ago

thank you for your explanation. i just realised that there is a very good document comparing git's ignore with fossil's in the fossil wiki, so for the sake of completeness i'll just put it here: https://www.fossil-scm.org/xfer/doc/trunk/www/globs.md