Handling of .gitignore files with escaped spaces is inconsistent with git #1172
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1. Use ripgrep over the Silver Searcher if it's installed. 2. Finally figured out the issue with .gitignore. I was backslash-escaping spaces in .gitignore, which works for git, but (currently) not for ripgrep or the Silver Searcher. Removing the unnecessary backslashes fixed the issue. Now I can finally :grep much faster than I :vimgrep, and use the external tools for much faster CtrlP-opening. I opened issues on the tools themselves: - BurntSushi/ripgrep#659 - ggreer/the_silver_searcher#1172
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In short, git treats paths with escaped spaces in the same way as paths with spaces. The Silver Searcher doesn't.
Steps to reproduce:
mkdir test_ignorecd test_ignoregit initecho "hi there" > "ignore me"echo "ignore\\ me" >> .gitignoregit statusNote that the "ignore me" file is not listed.ag hiObserved results:
Expected results:
There should be no output, because the Silver Searcher should be ignoring the "ignore me" file.
I've just fixed my repo not to include the unnecessary escaping, so as far as I'm concerned this is pretty low priority ;).
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