On Mon, 2014-11-17 at 20:50 -0800, Matthew Kaniaris wrote: > The Silver Search (https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher), is > a small, open source, cross platform searching utility written as a > replacement for ack. One of the major benefits of Ag (and a source > for much of its speed) is that it obeys .gitignore. However, Ag > currently treats gitignores as regexs which produces incorrect results > for e.g. **. I'd like to add support to ag to obey the .gitignore > spec but I'm not keen on implementing yet another fnmatch clone. Ag > is licensed under the Apache License Version 2.0 which to the best of > my understanding is incompatible with the GPLv2. Would you grant me > permission to reuse wildmatch.c (and necessary includes) for use in > Ag? I already implemented this without using any git code at https://github.com/novalis/the_silver_searcher. The patch was rejected because it slowed down ag slightly (or perhaps because it was overly complex). -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html