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Re:Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore by Hackbraten on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @03:17PM (#31426551)
> Why wouldn't you want to see them in your `git status`?

I tend to function poorly around cognitive clutter. It distracts me from the important stuff: the files I’ve decided to put under version control. YMMV.

> will become invisible to an increasingly large number of tools (vscode, ag aka silversearcher, ripgrep, emacs's projectile to name a few)

That doesn’t really seem to be the case with VS Code. Ignored files appear grey but they’re still showing up for me.

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Re:Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore by alex_smart on Wednesday May 18, 2022 @11:41PM (#31430430)
>Ignored files appear grey but they’re still showing up for me.

They show up greyed out in the explorer yes, but they won't appear when you navigate with "Go to File" (ctrl+p) and they won't be searched through with "Search" (ctrl+shift+f).

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Re:Git ignores .gitignore with .gitignore in .gitignore by Hackbraten on Friday May 20, 2022 @07:23AM (#31445886)
Good point!
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