.gitignore not appearing in VScode's file explorer

Question

In the standard Windows Explorer, the repo contains all the expected files: A snip of my file directory .

In VSCode, the .gitignore file does not display in the explorer . It's still seemingly functional (all files in the .gitignore are ignored), but it poses an annoyance. Most notably, the .gitignore file does appear in other repos that I have on my machine.

Help would be appreciated.

Answer 1

Check in your project folder .vscode/settings.json .

In section files.exclude most likely you will see the line

"**/.gitignore":true

Comment out or delete it and the file will appear in Visual Code Explorer