Use .gitignore from parent directory to exclude files from search result

Question

I'm using a workspace with 2 different folders that are part of the same reposiory. The.gitignore file for the directories is sitting in the above directory and not inside the folders.

The folder structure:

ParentDir
     .gitIgnore
     folder 1
     folder 2

Because of that VS Code doesn't exclude the files affected from.gitignore

Your help would be apprecited.

Answer 1

you can and should create a global.gitignore file, like this for instance:

touch ~/.gitignore_global
git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global

Answer 2

This was a limitation in VS Code, which has been resolved now that pull request #140022 is merged. Currently in VS Code Insiders you can achieve what you want by enabling the setting Search: Use Parent Ignore Files .