On Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 12:06 AM, Andreas Krey <a.k...@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
