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Ignore folders

See original GitHub issue

I recently created a git repository from a pre-existing projects and realized that we have no way of ignoring folders.

In this scenario I’d like to see the Ignore menu item become a submenu with this hierarchy

+--------------------+
| Discard changes... | +----------------------------+
| Ignore             +-> node_modules               |
+--------------------- | node_modules/.bin          |
                       | node_modules/.bin/electron |
                       +----------------------------+

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Created 6 years ago
Reactions:13
Comments:9 (6 by maintainers)

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4reactions

donokudacommented, Apr 17, 2017

oh, this would be so nice to have. What are your thoughts on either making the file itself the top choice and list all the parent folders below?

+--------------------+
| Discard changes... | +----------------------------+
| Ignore             +-> node_modules/.bin/electron |
+--------------------| +----------------------------+
                       | node_modules               |
                       | node_modules/.bin          |
                       +----------------------------+

Alternatively, we could have an “Ignore file” option and then have the folders in an “Ignore directory…” menu, which I’m leaning towards.

There are a couple of other things to consider like the ordering of the folders (should it be descending or ascending) and how the experience could be less than ideal once we hit a certain number of nested folders.

0reactions

stevewardcommented, Jan 4, 2022

Requested in https://github.com/desktop/desktop/issues/13619.

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