Use fd when available instead of find

The patch make fd the default for searching for files in non-DVCS
projects.

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@
 * [#982](https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile/issues/982) Add heuristic for projectile-find-matching-test
 * Support a list of functions for `related-files-fn` options and helper functions
 * [#1405](https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile/pull/1405) Add Bloop Scala build server project detection
+* [#1419](https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile/pull/1419) When possible, use [fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) instead
+  of `find` to list the files of a non-VCS project. This should be much faster.
 
 ### Bugs fixed
 

doc/configuration.md

@@ -81,8 +81,8 @@ find . -type f -print0
 
 !!! Tip
 
-    It's a great idea to install [fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) and use it as a replacement for both `git ls-files` (`fd` understands `.gitignore`) and `find`.
-    The magic command you'll need with it is something like `fd . -0`.
+    It's a great idea to install [fd](https://github.com/sharkdp/fd) which is much faster thant `find`.
+    If `fd` is found, projectile will use as a replacement for `find`.
 
 ## Sorting
 

projectile.el

@@ -643,7 +643,10 @@ Set to nil to disable listing submodules contents."
   :group 'projectile
   :type 'string)
 
-(defcustom projectile-generic-command "find . -type f -print0"
+(defcustom projectile-generic-command
+  (if (executable-find "fd")
+      "fd . -0"
+    "find . -type f -print0")
   "Command used by projectile to get the files in a generic project."
   :group 'projectile
   :type 'string)