Option to consider only parent .rgignore files?

[kaushalmodi]

I have a ~/.gitignore and that is considered as an ignore file for everything in my $HOME. In my use case the contents of ~/.gitignore do not apply as ignore criteria for searches! I have ~/.gitignore set up just to prevent committing sensitive text files to git (and then push) by mistake. So that file contains something like

a*
!a_ok_to_commit

That would prevent search of all a* files everywhere in my $HOME.

So it would be great to allow parent .rgignore (only) file consideration.

In addition a .gitignore specific -u would also be needed.

In summary, there is very little overlap of the contents of .gitignore and search ignore files like .agignore and .rgignore.

For .gitignore:

• Never use that for search ignores
• Do not use parent .gitignore

For .rgignore:

• Use that for search ignores
• Use parent .rgignore files

From what I understand, right now -u and --no-ignore-parent applies to both of these files and you cannot set those options separately for those 2 files.

[BurntSushi]

Why not just whitelist the files you want to search in your ~/.rgignore? e.g., !a*.

(I think I had the same problem as you, so I just put !* in my $HOME/.rgignore, which whitelists anything that would otherwise be ignored by $HOME/.gitignore.)

[kaushalmodi]

Before whitelisting:

km²~/temp/:proj> rg foo --debug                                                                                                                                                                      09/24 1:26am
DEBUG:grep::search: regex ast:
Literal {
    chars: [
        'f',
        'o',
        'o'
    ],
    casei: false
}
DEBUG:grep::literals: literal prefixes detected: Literals { lits: [Complete(foo)], limit_size: 250, limit_class: 10 }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/abc ignored by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.gitignore", original: "a*", pat: "**/a*", whitelist: false, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/ghi ignored by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.gitignore", original: "g*", pat: "**/g*", whitelist: false, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/.rgignore ignored because it is hidden
No files were searched, which means ripgrep probably applied a filter you didn't expect. Try running again with --debug.

After whitelisting by add !* to the very top of ~/.rgignore:

km²~/temp/:proj> rg foo --debug                                                                                                                                                                      09/24 1:31am
DEBUG:grep::search: regex ast:
Literal {
    chars: [
        'f',
        'o',
        'o'
    ],
    casei: false
}
DEBUG:grep::literals: literal prefixes detected: Literals { lits: [Complete(foo)], limit_size: 250, limit_class: 10 }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ whitelisted by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.rgignore", original: "!*", pat: "**/*", whitelist: true, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/abc whitelisted by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.rgignore", original: "!*", pat: "**/*", whitelist: true, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/abc/def whitelisted by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.rgignore", original: "!*", pat: "**/*", whitelist: true, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/abc/def/XXX whitelisted by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.rgignore", original: "!*", pat: "**/*", whitelist: true, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/abc/def/XXX/YYY whitelisted by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.rgignore", original: "!*", pat: "**/*", whitelist: true, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/abc/def/XXX/YYY/bar whitelisted by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.rgignore", original: "!*", pat: "**/*", whitelist: true, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/ghi whitelisted by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.rgignore", original: "!*", pat: "**/*", whitelist: true, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/ghi/XXX whitelisted by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.rgignore", original: "!*", pat: "**/*", whitelist: true, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/ghi/XXX/YYY whitelisted by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.rgignore", original: "!*", pat: "**/*", whitelist: true, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/ghi/XXX/YYY/bar whitelisted by Pattern { from: "/home/kmodi/.rgignore", original: "!*", pat: "**/*", whitelist: true, only_dir: false }
DEBUG:rg::ignore: ./SOMEPRJ/.rgignore ignored because it is hidden
SOMEPRJ/abc/def/XXX/YYY/bar
1:foo

SOMEPRJ/ghi/XXX/YYY/bar
1:foo

I believe this works (just that this repeats the bug in #50).

Thanks,

I only concern is that if you implement a global ignore file in $HOME/ripgrep/ignore ( #45 ), then how would the priority work?

Then I would need to put !* in $HOME/ripgrep/ignore that would override the ignores in ~/.gitignore? But wouldn't that be the wrong order?

On the other hand, if I put !* in ~/.rgignore, then wouldn't that override all the ignores in $HOME/ripgrep/ignore? :)

[BurntSushi]

It seems like the priority of any "global" ignores file should come strictly after any ignores from inside parent directories are considered. If you want to override ~/.gitignore then it makes sense that you should use a ~/.rgignore to do it.

[BurntSushi]

It sounds like this use case should be solved either by a global ignore file (#45) or by using explicit per-directory overrides.

[kaushalmodi]

This issue was more related to #68.

The fix for that issue ( 8eeb0c0 ) fixes this issue too.

Thanks!