.gitignore file not being used about git-cola HOT 4 CLOSED

I suspect that your files are already tracked. Are you seeing this in a public repository you can share?

Run git ls-files

Do you see the "ignored" files listed in the output?

If you see the filenames listed there then they're not candidates for being ignored until you remove/untrack them from git.

You can use the View -> File Browser tool as well. From there you can right-click and "Untrack Selected" to remove them from git.

I'm making a wild guess that you're basically running into a symptom of this: https://upokary.com/file-added-in-gitignore-but-still-shows-up-on-git-status-why/

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This is a bug and will be fixed pre-v1.4.0...
perhaps later tonight!

I think we just forgot to pass --exclude-standard to git-ls-files.

Thanks for catching it. I think I ran into a similar issue myself wondering why it was taking so long to view a certain repo and then noticed all of the untracked files.

Thanks for the report.

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models.main: Honor .gitignore

We forgot to pass --exclude-standard to git-ls-files.
An untracked_files() method was added and update_status() was
updated to use it.

Closed by c5b5519

Signed-off-by: David Aguilar [email protected]

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Hi,

I am using the latest 3.12.0 version of git-cola and its still not ignoring files mentioned in .gitignore. The same .gitignore in the same repo was working fine with other version control software.
Any workarounds to it @davvid ?
Thanks

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