Multiple quirks in ignore behavior

[mcandre]

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What version of ripgrep are you using?

ripgrep 14.1.0

How did you install ripgrep?

Homebrew

What operating system are you using ripgrep on?

macOS 14.4.1

Describe your bug.

• rg fails to ignore common junk directories by default, such as .git/, .svn/, build/, node_modules/, target/, vendor/, etc.
• rg appears not to respect --glob flags to ignore the same in ~/.ripgreprc.
• rg documents four different mechanisms dealing with ignore behavior, but only the .ignore file works.

What are the steps to reproduce the behavior?

rg "./..." in a large, complex git repository.

./... is Go CLI syntax. Here, we naively plug it into the ripgrep regular expression engine, which interprets the string as a pattern matching any single character followed by a forward slash followed by any three characters. Which often matches machine generated, binary files in the .git directory. This clobbers the console with very many files that are not normally relevant to user queries.

What is the actual behavior?

$ rg './...'
.git/info/exclude
1:# git ls-files --others --exclude-from=.git/info/exclude

.git/objects/f7/4591dae4979c7527b0eb045183b5004b7f1a9a
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Even worse, ripgrep dumps binary sequences directly to the console, corrupting my terminal.

I have to run reset (UNIX) each time afterwards to account for that.

What is the expected behavior?

• ripgrep should respect --glob exclusions in ~/.ripgreprc, which are often documented online by various ripgrep users.
• ripgrep should automatically exclude common VCS directories (.git, .svn) and common build system directories (build/, node_modules/, target/, vendor/) by default.
• ripgrep should deprecate .rgignore, presenting a warning when that file is present.

[BurntSushi]

There is way too much going on in this issue. ripgrep does ignore things like .git by default because it's a hidden directory and ripgrep ignores hidden directories by default. So there is more going on here than what you're showing. Maybe you have an alias or a config file influencing things here.

You also don't show any concrete example and don't show the --debug output. The --debug output should explain why .git is being searched.

Directories like node_modules or target are usually in your .gitignore.

I don't know why you're suggesting that .rgignore should be deprecated.

[mcandre]

ripgrep has too many, confusing mechanisms to manage exclusion patterns.

[BurntSushi]

Closing due to insufficient data from the OP