Next time that happens try looking at the paths, adding a pair of -u, or running with --debug: by default rg will ignore files which are hidden (dotfiles) or excluded by ignore files (.gitignore, .ignore, …).

See https://github.com/BurntSushi/ripgrep/blob/master/GUIDE.md#a... for the details.

I use "grep" to search files (it should never skip any unless I tell it to do otherwise) and "git grep" to be a programmer searching a codebase (where it should only look at code files unless I tell it to do otherwise). Two different hats.

I wouldn't want to use tools that straddle the two, unless they had a nice clear way of picking one or the other. ripgrep does have "--no-ignore", though I would prefer -a / --all (one could make their own with alias rga='rg --no-ignore')