Re: environment variable for location of the .svn directory ?

On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Andreas Krey <a.krey_at_gmx.de> wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 13:22:03 +0000, Olaf van der Spek wrote:
> ...
>> > (modulo externals). Having .svn outside the worktree isn't
>> > relevant for me; my gripe with .svn is that the pristine
>> > copies aren't compressed and thus generate matches in
>> > 'find | xargs grep' (in the nonexistence of 'svn grep').
>>
>> Don't find or grep have options to ignore dot / hidden files?
>
> Sure they have. But you'd need to teach a dozen tools
> this trick instead of letting one place hide it better.

Aren't you covered if you search * instead of . ? AFAIK * excludes dot
files too.

-- 
Olaf