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. Andreas -- "Totally trivial. Famous last words." From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@*.org> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:29:21 -0800