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Exclude gitignored files from file watcher

See original GitHub issue

I would like an option to disable watching of gitgnored files (i.e. add them to the files.watcherExclude option automatically).

I think this makes sense, at least I couldn’t think of a use case for watching gitignored files. It might also help with autorefresh related issues and could make the files.watcherExclude option thinner.

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Created 5 years ago
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thelaurencecommented, Mar 20, 2019

+1 for this feature. I’ve had to add many lines to files.watcherExclude to get rid of the “unable to watch for file changes in this large workspace” warning. It is a large workspace (around 20 separate Git repos), but 90% of the things I specify in files.watcherExclude could be automatically read in from the various .gitignore files. Maybe I’ll make a fork tonight and try to figure out what it would take to implement this.

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drdozercommented, Apr 8, 2020

This repeatedly hurts me. I tend to have a small number of source files, but quite large folders in my .gitignore. Those can have tens of thousands of files. Please, please, please add a default or toggle to black-list everything in the gitignore globs from the watcher process.

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