[burntsushi]

Thanks for the kind words!

Note that the key thing that `findrepo` doesn't support is respecting your .gitignore files. For example, in the Rust ecosystem, we often have a `target` directory in our projects that contains a lot of stuff we probably don't want to search. In fact, running `cargo new` will add that directory to your `.gitignore` automatically!

Tools like The Silver Searcher and ripgrep will ignore that directory (and all others like it) automatically.

There are other advantages to ripgrep. For example, every other tool that supports Unicode as well as ripgrep (that's `git grep` and GNU grep) experience a substantial slow down when trying to use more advanced Unicode features (like \w, -i, etc.). This is one of the things my benchmarks show.

[pixelbeat]

Yes ignoring .gitignore contents is a very useful feature. That could be added quite easily to findrepo though would probably have to be an opt as it is often useful to search intermediate build files etc. that aren't checked in. Whereas `git grep` handles the other use case of only searching checked in files.

Interesting info wrt efficient unicode processing for \w and -i.

cheers