They are. That's why it's always mentioned in the first few sentences of docs (man page, --help, README). With that said, this default is one of ripgrep's defin

They are. That's why it's always mentioned in the first few sentences of docs (man page, --help, README). With that said, this default is one of ripgrep's defining features and is something that users consistently report as one of their favorite things about ripgrep. You can disable all smart filtering (gitignore, hidden, binary) with `rg -uuu foo`. That will search the same stuff that `grep -r foo ./` will.