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Bug#700155: ITP: silversearcher-ag -- very fast grep-like program. alternative ack-grep.



On Sat, Feb 09, 2013 at 04:23:20PM +0900, Hajime MIZUNO wrote:
> * Package name    : silversearcher-ag
>   Version         : currently not assigned version number by upstrearm.
>   Upstream Author : Geoff Greer <geoff at greer dot fm>
> * URL or Web page : https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher
> * License         : Apache-2.0
>   Description     : very fast grep-like program. alternative ack-grep.
> 
> The Silver Searcher is grep-like program implemented by C.
> An attempt to make something better than ack-grep.
> 
> - It searches pattern about 3–5x faster than ack-grep.
> - It ignores file patterns from your .gitignore and .hgignore.
> - If there are files in your source repo you don't want to search.

How does it compare to »git grep«?

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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