Lf: Respect gitignore file

[pr4th4m]

How do I make lf respect gitignore file?

[gokcehan]

@pratz What do you mean by respecting? Is it like hiding files in gitignore files? Is it a good idea to do that in a file manager? I understand this can be useful for tools like grep but I'm not sure about file managers.

[pr4th4m]

Ya, hiding or excluding files/directories which are in gitignore file.
For instance, all .pyc files in a project are listed with lf, which I feel is a distraction.
Would be really convenient to exclude files/directories.

[097115]

Is it a good idea to do that in a file manager?

It certainly isn't "as is". However, what about treating files in .gitignore as "hidden files", toggleable with zh?

[pr4th4m]

Every developers workflow is different, if ignoring files with zsh works for you, do it :)
However, I personally feel hiding/unhiding should be file manager's job instead of shell's.

[TeddyDD]

This should be general mechanism that allow to use any *ignore file (dockerignore, helmignore etc.)

[adamtabrams]

I think there may be a pretty simple solution for this. When hidden is set, every file in a directory should be shown. But you could let the user set a script for filehider the same way we can with previewer. That way the lf project doesn't have to implement a ton of different options, but a user can customize what is hidden when hidden isn't set. Users could have their script use a tool like fd which has lots of options and is made for this kind of stuff.

[gokcehan]

This should now be possible to implement as a custom command with hiddenfiles option and on-cd command.