On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 14:50:50 +0100 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
Hmm, whatever grep version the user is using, why don't we just change the note in the manual to mention both methods equally. So users with a grep supporting --exclude-dir and those without will find the suitable information(in addition to the grep manpage they have probably installed).
Sure, we could write something like 'for GNU Grep >= 2.5.2 use --exclude-dir=.* --exclude-dir=CVS' - although I haven't tested it as I don't have it yet ;-) In fact those two options would be so useful perhaps they should have their own preference 'Ignore hidden directories and CVS', with a tooltip mentioning the Grep version needed.
Regards, Nick