Projectile: Cannot override git ignore using .projectile

[thermopyle]

I have the following in .gitignore:

Dev/Parts/

I try to make Projectile index and use all files in Dev/Parts by placing the following in .projectile:

!/Dev/Parts

Projectile does not include the files and folders in Dev/Parts when searching for files, they are still excluded according to the pattern in .gitignore.

I try to unignore a specific file using the following pattern in .projectile:

!/Dev/Parts/PluginPackage/VSTPlugIn.cpp

Projectile does not find this file.

Projectile version: 20181008.812
GNU Emacs 26.1 (build 1, x86_64-apple-darwin14.5.0, NS appkit-1348.17 Version 10.10.5 (Build 14F2511)) of 2018-05-31
MacOS 10.14 Mojave 

[bbatsov]

What's your indexing method?

[thermopyle]

I haven't specified this explicitly so I guess it's turbo-alien (?).

[thermopyle]

If I switch to native indexing it works. Doesn't alien and turbo-alien indexing take .projectile configuration into account?

[bbatsov]

@thermopyle alien does, but turbo-alien doesn't (that's intentional, as this unignoring is pretty slow). I might have broken it when I introduced the turbo-alien mode, as a lot of code was a big mess and I had to do some pretty epic changes with almost no tests. Therefore my effort in #1303 to adopt a better testing library and come up with a proper test suite.

[bbatsov]

You can read a little bit more on the subject here http://www.projectile.mx/en/latest/configuration/

[thermopyle]

I can confirm that the alien indexing method does not take .projectile configuration into account when it comes to including previously git ignored files in the file search.

The only method that makes it possible (without tweeking) to include previously git ignored files in the file search is the native method and it is painfully slow on my system (it's a very large project) so it is not an option.

Instead I installed fd and changed the projectile git command by adding the following to my .init.el:

(setq projectile-git-command "fd . --print0 --no-ignore-vcs --color never")
(setq projectile-indexing-method 'alien)

With this projectile file search is working for me again.

[ZzAntares]

I confirm this as an issue, in the mean time for others looking @thermopyle solution does work. Thank you sir.

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[rileyrg]

This is still an issue. Things are being closed as stale because they're not fixed. Perhaps lengthen the closing period? In addition the @thermopyle solution is not working today. Not being able to search with ag in gitgnored directories is a major hassle.

[ZzAntares]

Yes can confirm, as of today, it does not work. What ever files are listed in .gitignore will not be seen by projectile even though they are un-ignored in the .projectile file.

[wminshew]

based on my reading of the latest docs, I suspect this is "working as expected". Setting the indexing method to native or hybrid seems to fix it, albeit at the cost of slower search (much slower for native)