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author | Dan Bjorge <dan@dbjorge.net> | 2021-04-15 19:21:26 -0400 |
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committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-04-15 19:21:26 -0400 |
commit | 92286ad4d2a9c8b054de8aaea05c23a7220d20b3 (patch) | |
tree | 9497ebdf20a015ae74770f1ff835fbba0eb46bf6 /crates | |
parent | 4ebe8375ec69769674a1c2270f2ec32eee1a944c (diff) |
doc: clarify --hidden definition
On Windows, we didn't previously document that ripgrep
respected both the prefix-dot convention _and_ the "hidden"
attribute on files.
Fixes #1847
Diffstat (limited to 'crates')
-rw-r--r-- | crates/core/app.rs | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/crates/core/app.rs b/crates/core/app.rs index c97578a3..e2688ceb 100644 --- a/crates/core/app.rs +++ b/crates/core/app.rs @@ -1433,6 +1433,10 @@ Search hidden files and directories. By default, hidden files and directories are skipped. Note that if a hidden file or a directory is whitelisted in an ignore file, then it will be searched even if this flag isn't provided. +A file or directory is considered hidden if its base name starts with a dot +character ('.'). On operating systems which support a `hidden` file attribute, +like Windows, files with this attribute are also considered hidden. + This flag can be disabled with --no-hidden. " ); @@ -1971,6 +1975,9 @@ fn flag_no_ignore_dot(args: &mut Vec<RGArg>) { "\ Don't respect .ignore files. +This does *not* affect whether ripgrep will ignore files and directories +whose names begin with a dot. For that, see --hidden. + This flag can be disabled with the --ignore-dot flag. " ); |