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Do you know about “git grep”? It’s like grep but only greps files tracked by git. Very useful.

Why use a git-specific tool when a generic one (rg) works just as well, even from a parent directory?

I often use rg to search code across repositories so it's useful to have that regardless of grep and git

Often a directory contains a mix of source files (in git) and output files (usually in .gitignore). But maybe rg automatically handles this?

It does

I didn't, seems worth giving a look.