History file for ack. http://beyondgrep.com/ 2.12 Tue Dec 3 07:05:02 CST 2013 ==================================== [SECURITY FIXES] This verison of ack prevents the --pager, --regex and --output options from being used from project-level ackrc files. It is possible to execute malicious code with these options, and we want to prevent the security risk of acking through a potentially malicious codebase, such as one downloaded from an Internet site or checked out from a code repository. The --pager, --regex and --output options may still be used from the global /etc/ackrc, your own private ~/.ackrc, the ACK_OPTIONS environment variable, and of course from the command line. [ENHANCEMENTS] Now ignores Eclipse .metadata directory. Thanks, Steffen Jaeckel. [INTERNALS] Removed the Git revision tracking in the --version. 2.11_02 Sun Oct 6 12:39:21 CDT 2013 ==================================== [FIXES] 2.11_01 was mispackaged. This fixes that. 2.11_01 Sun Sep 29 13:15:41 CDT 2013 ==================================== [FIXES] Fixed a race condition in t/file-permission.t that was causing failures if tests were run in parallel. 2.10 Tue Sep 24 16:24:11 CDT 2013 ==================================== [ENHANCEMENTS] Add --perltest for *.t files. Added Matlab support. Thanks, Zertrin. [FIXES] Fix the test suite for Win32. Many thanks to Christian Walde for bringing the severity of this issue to our attention, as well as providing a Win32 development environment for us to work with. Fixed Win32-detection in the Makefile.PL. Thanks, Michael Beijen and Alexandr Ciornii. More compatibility fixes for Perl 5.8.8. 2.08 Thu Aug 22 23:11:45 CDT 2013 ==================================== [ENHANCEMENTS] ack now ignores CMake's build/cache directories by default. Thanks, Volodymyr Medvid. Add shebang matching for --lua files. Add documentation for --ackrc. Add Elixir filetype. Add --cathy option. Thanks to Joe McMahon. Add some helpful debugging tips when an invalid option is found. Thanks to Charles Lee. Ignore PDF files by default, because Perl will detect them as text. Ignore .gif, .jpg, .jpeg and .png files. They won't normally be selected, but this is an optimization so that ack doesn't have to open them to know. [FIXES] Ack's colorizing of output would get confused with multiple sets of parentheses. This has been fixed. (Issue #276) Ack would get confused when trying to colorize the output in DOS-format files. This has been fixed. (Issue #145) 2.06 ==================================== This mistake of an upload lived for only about 15 minutes. 2.05_01 Tue May 28 10:12:04 CDT 2013 ==================================== [ENHANCEMENTS] We now ignore the node_modules directories created by npm. Thanks, Konrad Borowski. --pager without an argument implies --pager=$PAGER. --perl now recognizes Plack-style .psgi files. Thanks, Ron Savage. Added filetypes for Coffescript, JSON, LESS, and Sass. [FIXES] Command-line options now override options set in ackrc files. ACK_PAGER and ACK_PAGER_COLOR now work as advertised. Fix a bug resulting in uninitialized variable warnings when more than one capture group was specified in the search pattern. Make sure ack is happy to build and test under cron and other console-less environments. Colored output is now supported and on by default on Windows. 2.04 Fri Apr 26 22:47:55 CDT 2013 ==================================== ack now runs on a standard Perl 5.8.8 install with no module updates. The minimum Perl requirement for ack is now explicitly 5.8.8. Anything before 5.8.8 will not work, and we've added checks. Thanks, Michael McClimon. [FIXES] ack was colorizing captured groups even if --nocolor was given. Thanks, Dale Sedivic. [ENHANCEMENTS] The --shell file type now recognizes the fish shell. We now ignore minified CSS or Javascript, in the form of either *.css.min or *.min.css, or *.js.min or *.min.js. Added support for the Dart language. ack 2.02 was much slower than ack 1.96, up to 8x slower in some cases. These slowdowns have been mostly eliminated, and in some cases ack 2.04 is now faster than 1.96. 2.02 Thu Apr 18 23:51:52 CDT 2013 ==================================== [ENHANCEMENTS] The firstlinematch file type detection option now only searches the first 250 characters of the first line of the file. Otherwise, ack would read entire text files that were only one line long, such as minified JavaScript, and that would be slow. Thanks, Michael McClimon. [DOCUMENTATION] Many clarifications and cleanups. Thanks, Michael McClimon. 2.00 Wed Apr 17 22:49:41 CDT 2013 ==================================== The first version of ack 2.0. # Incompatibilities with ack 1.x ack 2 makes some big changes in its behaviors that could trip up users who are used to the idiosyncracies of ack 1.x. These changes could affect your searching happiness, so please read them. * ack's default behavior is now to search all files that it identifies as being text. ack 1.x would only search files that were of a file type that it recognized. * Removed the `-a` and `-u` options since the default is to search all text files. * Removed the `--binary` option. ack 2.0 will not find and search through binary files. * Removed the `--skipped` option. * Removed the `--invert-file-match` option. `-v` now works with `-g`. To list files that do not match `/foo/` ack -g foo -v * `-g` now obeys all regex options: `-i`, `-w`, `-Q`, `-v` * Removed the `-G` switch, because it was too confusing to have two regexes specified on the command line. Now you use the `-x` switch to pipe filenames from one `ack` invocation into another. To search files with filename matching "sales" for the string "foo": ack -g sales | ack -x foo # New features in ack 2.0 ack 2.0 will: * By default searches all text files, as identified by Perl's `-T` operator * We will no longer have a `-a` switch. * improved flexibility in defining filetype selectors * name equality ($filename eq 'Makefile') * glob-style matching (`*.pl` identifies a Perl file) * regex-style matching (`/\.pl$/i` identifies a Perl file) * shebang-line matching (shebang line matching `/usr/bin/perl/` identifies a Perl file) * support for multiple ackrc files * global ackrc (/etc/ackrc) * https://github.com/petdance/ack/issues/#issue/79 * user-specific ackrc (~/.ackrc) * per-project ackrc files (~/myproject/.ackrc) * you can use --dump to figure which options are set where * all inclusion/exclusion rules will be in the ackrc files * ack 2.0 has a set of definitions for filetypes, directories to include or exclude, etc, *but* these are only included so you don't need to ship an ackrc file to a new machine. You may tell ack to disregard these defaults if you like. * In addition to the classic `--thpppt` option to draw Bill the Cat, `ack --bar` will draw (of course) Admiral Ackbar.