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Automatically add .dart_tool to the watch exclusion list

See original GitHub issue

Does a VS code plugin have the ability to update the workspace watch exclusion list? As more users migrate to build_runner we’ll have more occurrences of this directory with lots of files and excluding it can prevent the editor from picking up too many file watchers which are a limited resource.

See https://gitter.im/dart-lang/angular?at=5aba15b9e4ff28713a7aeb6e

If we can’t do it automatically should we document it somewhere?

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DanTupcommented, Mar 29, 2018

The issue I opened with Code has been assigned to the April milestone, so hopefully we’ll get a clean way to handle this (but the April release doesn’t ship till early May).

We could edit the users settings for them in the meantime, but since we have to copy the whole list (they don’t get merged together) it feels a nit nasty.

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DanTupcommented, Dec 9, 2021

The latest VS Code lets us contribute these exclusions without overwriting them all so I’ve added .dart_tool to the watcher exclusions (I didn’t add it to files.exclude so it’ll still show in the explorer - I thought it may be odd to hide it by default without being obvious to users).

If there are any other folders we should consider adding (I did wonder about build, ios, android etc. for Flutter, but I’m not certain that’s sound or the full implications of doing so).

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