Exclude directories from recursive grep

How often are you using grep in subversionned folders like that :

grep -rni foobar . | grep -v .svn

Upgrade to grep 2.5.3 and use (alias it ?)

grep -rni --exclude-dir .svn foobar .

(or … stop using SVN ! ! !)

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