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Have a --noignore-file option #373

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There are some builtin --ignore-files that I'd like to override (specifically not searching minified files), but there doesn't seem to be an easy way to do that (i.e. where I can just continue typing ack pattern). I'd like to suggest a --noignore-file option. I can see a couple of ways it could work:

  1. If a --noignore-file option is given and there's a --ignore-file option in effect with the same right-hand side as the --noignore-file, drop the --ignore-file (and if there isn't a matching --ignore-file, maybe give a warning).
  2. Collect the --noignore-files and if a file matches a --ignore-file, try it against the --noignore-files, and if it matches one of those, don't ignore it.

The first is probably easier to implement, but the second would also allow ignoring a large class of files but then overriding that for a subset of the class.

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