A checkout of my repository [0] with many pdf and audio files (20GB) is slow with -u. These data files are normally ignored because 1) they are in .gitignore and 2) they are binary.

The repository contains CI files in .woodpecker. These are scripts that I'd normally expect to be searching in. Until a week ago I used -uu to do so, but that made rg take over 4 seconds for a search. Using -. brings the search time down to 24ms.

    git ls-files -z | time xargs -0 rg -w e23
    40ms

    rg -w. e23
    24ms

    rgg -w e23
    16ms

    rg -wuu e23
    2754ms

The -. flag makes this point moot though.

[0] https://codeberg.org/vandenoever/rehorse

Oh I see now. I now understand that you thought you couldn't convince ripgrep to search hidden files without also searching files typically ignored by gitignore. Thus, `git ls-files`.

Yes, now it makes sense. And yes, `-./--hidden` makes it moot. Thanks for following up!