Find in Files "files to include" override .gitignore

VSCode 1.12: I have a TypeScript project with a src folder and a .gitignore file containing this:

/src/**/*.js

If I search for something, it is OK with ‘files to include’ is empty:

but it is not OK if I scope the search:

While I’m searching only in some sup-tree of my project, all .gitignore rules should still be taken into account.

[localjo]

For anyone wondering about the status of this issue, it looks like the underlying ripgrep issue is a bit stale. In the meantime, I found a workaround that works for me to exclude irrelevant files from search in my multi-root workspace.

My workaround is adding this to my workspace settings.json:

  "search.exclude": {
    "**/.git": true,
    "**/node_modules": true,
    "**/tmp": true,
    "**/dist": true,
    "**/lib": true,
    "**/generated": true
  }

It’s not perfect, and doesn’t take into account any .gitignore files, but excluding those common patterns works well enough for me to find the files I’m looking for without sifting through loads of irrelevant results.

[EsrefDurna]

Could we prioritize this issue? Because it definitely blocks effective development. For example, I’m having an error from an module that I installed. I have to disable then enable ignore file search again and again. Evetytime I need to search on node modules folder its so annoying. And I believe most people though that the thing what they are searching doesn’t exists on node modules folder, which can lead to many hours of frustration and waste of time for each developer.

Thank you