Olaf van der Spek wrote on Sun, Dec 25, 2016 at 09:59:44 +0100: > Aren't you covered if you search * instead of . ? AFAIK * excludes dot > files too.
That excludes _all_ dot files, not just .svn, and doesn't ignore .svn dirs in nested working copies (such as externals). I mentioned hidesvn(1) upthread which has none of these drawbacks.