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Weird behaviour not ignoring files and searching non-files? #675

Closed ryanmortier closed 5 years ago

ryanmortier commented 5 years ago

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ack seems to be ignoring my ignored files but that isn't the worst part. The worst part is it keeps finding things in these weird non-files called path, confirmation_, confirmation_path, etc.

ryanmortier commented 5 years ago

Solved. Yikes, actually the issue was pretty simple.

Turns out I had issued an ack ->confirmation_path command earlier (working with PHP objects) and trying to find string literal ->confirmation_path.

Unknowingly this had dumped acks output to a file named confirmation_path including the composer.lock content.

Stupid mistake.

petdance commented 5 years ago

Glad you found it. I've done that more than a few times myself. I try to have the habit of looking for -.method_name. Theoretically it could match -Xmethod_name, but I use it for safety if I'm just snooping around a codebase.