Re: Best practices: living with .svn?

Stephen Peters <portnoy@portnoy.org> writes:

> I've made use of
> alias rg='grep --exclude=\*.svn\* -r'

In GNU grep 2.5.1, --exclude does not apply to names of
directories. (See grep-2.5.1/lib/savedir.c.) Thus, that command
will still search all .svn/README.txt files, among others.

A pipe like this would avoid that problem:

  find . -name .svn -prune -or -print0 | xargs -r0 grep -H regex

However, this is more difficult to wrap with a grep-like syntax:
the directory (or file) names would have to be separated from
grep options, and names like -foo would have to be changed to
./-foo.

I think the cleanest solution would be to patch grep. It could
take a new "--exclude-dir=.svn" option, or extend the existing
"--exclude=.svn" to affect directories too, or require
"--exclude=.svn/".

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Received on Sun Apr 11 18:28:01 2004