[Geany] Find in files -> exclude version control dirs

[Enrico Tröger]

On Fri, 7 Mar 2008 13:30:37 +0000, Nick Treleaven
<nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 16:35:37 -0600
> "Jeff Pohlmeyer" <yetanothergeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > Nick Treleaven <nick.treleaven at btinternet.com> wrote:
> > > Jeff Pohlmeyer <yetanothergeek at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > > Shouldn't that be --exclude-dir=.svn ?
> > 
> > > Yes, but AFAICT the stable version of Grep doesn't support
> > > this yet (development version does).
> > 
> > From what I can see, The stable version is 2.5.3 and this option
> > has been available since 2.5.2
> > ( The ChangeLog says it was added 2006-08-19 )
> 
> From: http://www.gnu.org/software/grep/devel.html
> "The latest stable release of GNU grep is "2.5.1a"."
> 
> But maybe this page is out of date?
> 
> > But you're right, it probably still isn't available to everyone.
> 
> I did a quick RPM search:
> http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=grep
> 
> It seems only Mandriva devel, OpenPKG and OpenSuSE (not SuSE) have 2.5.2
> or later (although rpmfind isn't the best way of checking this ;-)).

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).


Regards,
Enrico

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