Currently the IGNORE_DIRS list defines what directories to ignore. This is a rather brute-force approach that clearly won't scale well across languages, frameworks, usage patterns.
Proposal
Ignore every directory that starts with a dot (.)
Expected consequences
Looking at some of my repositories, most dot directories are:
- .devcontainer
- .mypy_cache
- .pytest_cache
- .htmlcov
With the exception of .devcontainer, all of these are already gitignored following the GitHub gitignore collection
Currently the
IGNORE_DIRSlist defines what directories to ignore. This is a rather brute-force approach that clearly won't scale well across languages, frameworks, usage patterns.Proposal
Ignore every directory that starts with a dot (
.)Expected consequences
Looking at some of my repositories, most dot directories are:
With the exception of
.devcontainer, all of these are already gitignored following the GitHub gitignore collection