How to display all files in Project Navigator in Xcode 9?

Question

Some files on my Swift project, like circle.yml and .gitignore , aren't shown in the Xcode 9 Navigator. How do I get them so show up?

Answer 1

You seem to think that just because something is in your project folder, it's part of the project. That isn't the case. The project isn't magically watching the project folder to see what's in there. It knows about the stuff that it put in there, because that's the only way stuff is supposed to get in there in the first place.

If you want something to be part of the project, and you yourself put it into the project folder without telling the project that you did so — which was not necessarily a very smart idea to start with — then dragging it into the project navigator to make it part of the project is up to you.