grep: Look for ./.grepignore and ~/.grepignore by default?

Andrew Pennebaker <[email protected]> Fri, 26 Apr 2013 09:24:29 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.utils
Message-ID <[email protected]>
ack has this cool ability to ignore files and directories on a project-by-project basis, using .ackrc files. grep has a feature like this, --exclude-from=FILE.

Could the next version of gnu grep --exclude-from=./.grepignore and --exclude-from=~/.grepignore by default?