Re: Best practices: living with .svn?

Thanks! That explained why my previous shot didn't work. But I don't
want to retrain my fingers to type rg instead of grep.

Setting $GREP_OPTIONS in ~/.bashrc like this did the trick
        export GREP_OPTIONS="--exclude="\*/.svn/\*"

At 11:41 AM -0400 4/11/04, Stephen Peters wrote:
>Brad Cox <bcox@virtualschool.edu> writes:
>
>> #1 on the wish list: what is the svn-friendly way to use grep -r foo
>> src to find all the foos in my working src directory, without
>> interference from hits in svn's administrative area (.svn). Hopefully
>> a global setting somewhere so I don't have to type special commands
>> each time. There are hopeful prospects in the man pages but I've not
>> yet hit on a working combination.
>
>I've made use of
> alias rg='grep --exclude=\*.svn\* -r'
>
>And then was able to type
> rg foo src
>
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