Exa: `exa --tree` with `--git-ignore`

[anishmittal2020]

When we execute, exa --tree with --git-ignore. Paths mentioned in .gitignored are not respected.

#.gitignore
/**/Unsync/**

$ exa --tree --git-ignore
.
├── a.pdf
├── B
│  ├── a.pdf
│  ├── b.md
│  └── Unsync
│     ├── a.pdf
│     └── b.md
└── b.md

[kdabir]

Even I am facing the same problem. The same issue affect --recurse option as well.

[hrlmartins]

Can you try remove the first / char from the line of the .gitignore to see if it works.

[alexilyaev]

Had the same issue with nested node_modules folder.

With exa, this only ignores the top level node_modules, but in git it actually ignores it anywhere in the tree.

#.gitignore
node_modules

Adding this works for exa, but we shouldn't be needing to do this:

#.gitignore
node_modules
*/node_modules

[whitelynx]

I'm also having the same issue, specifically with __pycache__ folders and .pyc files. My .gitignore has the lines:

__pycache__/
*.py[cod]

which correctly make git ignore all nested __pycache__ and .pyc files, but exa--tree --git-ignore still shows them.

[pmensik]

Is there any progress with this issue? I can confirm that exa -T --git-ignore will display contents of the target directory (which is in the .gitignore) when this project is built.