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That's why a bunch of tools agreed on something that was not tied to any one of them. What did I miss? We are explicitly not talking about .gitignore.
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But both rg and ag ignore paths in .gitignore by default still
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> We are explicitly not talking about .gitignore.

Actually we are, because some utter idiot wrote:

> grep-like tools which read .gitignore violate POLA.

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> utter idiot

How about we keep it civilized

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Given that they were quoting themselves, I think it's probably intended as humor. (I had to scroll up to check but I immediately suspected, and it made me chuckle)
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