Avoid crossing mount boundaries.
Section: Performance patterns
Stay on one filesystem
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rg --one-file-system 'backup' /Explanation
Useful in server environments with mounted volumes or network filesystems.
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Tune the number of worker threads
Control ripgrep parallelism explicitly.
Inspect filtering decisions
Show diagnostics about ignores, globs, and traversal.