[i_s]

The silver searcher is pretty good. but it has a couple of big problems. It does not parse the .gitignore correctly [0], so it frequently searches files that are not committed to your repo. This, combined with the decision to print 10000 character long lines mean a lot of search results are useless.

[0] https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/367 for example

[michaelmior]

I noticed the issue you mentioned, but as the last comment mentions, I believe this has already been fixed. My specific case at least was resolved by updating from master.

[davidgerard]

The author notes that git grep is faster than ag when you're lucky enough to be searching a repo.