I'm just trying to be helpful, not call you out.

I've implemented gitignore aware file scanning before, and it was slower than git native operations when you only care about tracked files.

It's the speed that is the part I was speaking too, not the semantics.

Yes, I agree, `git ls-files` can indeed be faster than just `rg --files`. On my Chromium checkout:

    $ hyperfine --output pipe 'rg --files' 'git ls-files'
    Benchmark 1: rg --files
      Time (mean ± σ):     141.2 ms ±   7.1 ms    [User: 1134.5 ms, System: 376.3 ms]
      Range (min … max):   128.7 ms … 154.8 ms    20 runs

    Benchmark 2: git ls-files
      Time (mean ± σ):      54.9 ms ±   1.7 ms    [User: 41.7 ms, System: 13.1 ms]
      Range (min … max):    52.2 ms …  62.0 ms    54 runs

    Summary
      git ls-files ran
        2.57 ± 0.15 times faster than rg --files