[Feature Request] Ignore anything under a directory or in an ignore file

[grepgrok]

I would love to be able to tag my coding projects, unfortunately, these are often large with thousands of tiny, repetitive, uninteresting files. I would love for the library search to just ignore these.

This can be somewhat automated, for example, a anything listed in a .gitignore can probably be ignored. Likewise, a number of project structures have a default "backups ignore these files" signal which can probably be identified.

At the bare minimum, letting the user ignore batches of files would be great.

Also, it is important to note that, if you are ignoring a directory, there may be files IN that directory which the user may want to specify as to NOT ignore.

[grepgrok]

See #74

[grepgrok]

Wait, I'm a dingbat. Ignoring directories not tagging them (though they are perhaps related)

[CyanVoxel]

Wait, I'm a dingbat. Ignoring directories not tagging them (though they are perhaps related)

No worries! Although, I hate to be the one to say that this is a duplicate of #14...

[roboticforest]

Also, it is important to note that, if you are ignoring a directory, there may be files IN that directory which the user may want to specify as to NOT ignore.

I added this in my own notes just today as I play around with and explore the program and was going to suggest it as a feature, so an important thing to cast my vote on.

The example I put in my notes was ignoring certain OS files by default, like all desktop.ini files, except if a user creates or customizes any themselves (like I have for my home folders) than they might want just those custom ones visible for tagging.

This could potentially be implemented as a simple exclusion list which contains folder & file extension entries, but if any item starts with some specific escape character, like say... a minus sign, than those are exceptions. Same could apply for an inclusion list too.

For example:
Say I'm working with a library made from my ~/Pictures/ directory

EXCLUDE
*.ini
*.bak
Some Project/
- /Wallpapers/desktop.ini

Here every .ini and .bak file, along with the directory Some Project/, but the custom desktop.ini within the Wallpapers/ directory is not ignored.

[CyanVoxel]

Also, it is important to note that, if you are ignoring a directory, there may be files IN that directory which the user may want to specify as to NOT ignore.

I added this in my own notes just today as I play around with and explore the program and was going to suggest it as a feature, so an important thing to cast my vote on.

The example I put in my notes was ignoring certain OS files by default, like all desktop.ini files, except if a user creates or customizes any themselves (like I have for my home folders) than they might want just those custom ones visible for tagging.

This could potentially be implemented as a simple exclusion list which contains folder & file extension entries, but if any item starts with some specific escape character, like say... a minus sign, than those are exceptions. Same could apply for an inclusion list too.

For example: Say I'm working with a library made from my ~/Pictures/ directory

EXCLUDE
*.ini
*.bak
Some Project/
- /Wallpapers/desktop.ini

Here every .ini and .bak file, along with the directory Some Project/, but the custom desktop.ini within the Wallpapers/ directory is not ignored.

That feature is being tracked via #624 (formerly #14 which is now stale). I saw your comment over there as well, and your use cases should be able to be accomplished via a .gitignore style glob list mentioned there.

(also please do not comment on old closed issues, this one was closed as being a duplicate and commenting here only serves to unnecessarily notify people and fragment the discussion of present issues.)