posit-dev / posit-dev/positron
Provide option to automatically add specific directories/files to .gitignore
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Description
Positron Version: 2023.09.0 (Universal) build 203
Steps to reproduce the issue:
- Create a folder and add a virtual environment
- Initialize a git repo from source control menu
- Get warning that there are too many files since the entirety of the venv is included and not automatically git ignored.
What did you expect to happen?
I would like to be able to ignore specific files/directories by default or right-click to ignore that directory.
There was an ignored? feature request for this: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/issues/107521
Were there any error messages in the output or Developer Tools console?
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Reproduce the virtual-environment warning from the issue steps and review the linked VS Code feature request. Start by tracing the source-control initialization flow; done should clearly establish whether default directory/file ignores, a right-click ignore action, or both are supported and verify that the selected virtual environment is excluded.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- git
- Domain
- devtools
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100