It's not much faster as in "over 50% faster". It's faster to invoke as you have much less to type to scan recursively with ignore list. However I find that in m

It's not much faster as in "over 50% faster". It's faster to invoke as you have much less to type to scan recursively with ignore list. However I find that in many projects .gitignore is too extensive, because it includes generated code, that many times is quite informative. Then it's still nice to use those alternative grep-likes, but not by much. Besides, when you can't install easily it's hard to beat something that it's already there and everywhere else.