> But it's a bit of a shame not to see it actually merging back up stream What's a shame is people publicly complaining about how volunteers don't take on more

> But it's a bit of a shame not to see it actually merging back up stream What's a shame is people publicly complaining about how volunteers don't take on more work. Please don't do that next time. Thanks. > It would be nice to see more of them become easy to be the "default" tool to use. And forks make that harder. This fork has about zero relevance to whether ripgrep can be used as a replacement for other tools like GNU grep. The fork is serving an important but niche use case.