I use "ack" rather than ripgrep, but the reason I changed was that it automatically ignores a lot of files that I don't care about: VCS files largely. That's t

I use "ack" rather than ripgrep, but the reason I changed was that it automatically ignores a lot of files that I don't care about: VCS files largely. That's the big feature for me, because I'm usually searching in Mercurial repos and every match appears twice (real file and .hg file).