Tell Sublime Text to ignore everything in .gitignore?

Question

Vim has this great plugin to convert the current .gitignore project into a syntax that Vim understands, and from there exclude all of these files from opening.

Using Sublime Text 3 'Go to Anything' (CMD + P), I get a lot of files that I am not interested in, for example, materials for .build and .meteor .

Is there something similar for ST3?

Answer 1

I created a quick and dirty sublime-gitignorer plugin to solve this problem.

It is currently being tested on Ubuntu and Windows in Sublime Text 2 and 3. I expect it to work on any other Linux distribution or Mac as well.

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To install, if you have package control , simply:

• Press CTRL + SHIFT + P ( CMD + SHIFT + P on Mac)
• Select Install Package
• Find Gitignored File Excluder and press Enter .

Alternatively , if you do not have package management, you can copy gitignore_plugin.py to the package directory, which you can find by selecting Browse Packages... from the Preferences menu in Sublime. You really should get Package Control instead, although this is useful.

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I'm not joking when I say that this plugin is dirty. The way it works is that the plugin every five seconds:

• Checks for Git repos located in your open folders
• asks Git which paths are ignored in each of these repos
• Adds these paths to the file_exclude_patterns and folder_exclude_patterns .

Everything seems to be working fine.

Anyone who wants to contribute or report bugs should check the page.

Answer 2

You can get a list of all ignored files with

git ls-files --others -i --exclude-standard

and then add this to your file_exclude_patterns in Sublime Text, as suggested by bheklilr.

Answer 3

Assuming you have Sublime 3 and the package manager is already installed:

• add repo https://github.com/apc999/sublime-text-gitignore
• add package sublime-text-gitignore
• use menu item: File-> Exclude Git -ignored

Good luck :)