Any way to specify files to hide or collapse in the editor?

Glitch Feature Ideas
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Hi there! Most of my projects go through a compilation step, which ends up adding a lot of clutter to the editor sidebar. It would be great if I could collapse the folder that contains the output, or provide a config file telling the editor to hide certain files. Do you have anything like this on your roadmap? Thanks!

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hi rolandcrosby,

you can already hide certain files! To do that, create a file called .gitignore and put the files/directories you want to hide there. It also works with glob patterns (like: build/*).

After you finish modifying the file, wait up to 10 second for the editor to refresh and reflect the changes :slight_smile:

let us know if this fixes your issue, and happy coding!

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aha! I already had .gitignore files in my projects, but it looks like Git and Glitch parsed them slightly differently. My .gitignore files specified paths like /lib/ and /dist/ in order to only match directories called lib and dist in the root of my projects. This works correctly with Git itself:

$ ls -R1
lib
src

./lib:

test.js


./src:

test.js

$ cat .gitignore

/lib/

$ git status

On branch master


Initial commit


Untracked files:

.gitignore

src/


nothing added to commit but untracked files present

But Glitch doesn’t hide these files - in Glitch it only works if I omit the preceding / from the paths in the .gitignore file.

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Thanks for reporting :slight_smile: we are aware of the fact that our .gitignore parser is not 100% accurate, and we’ll work toward a solution. Can you use the lib/ notation without the preceding /, or does it break your workflow?

Thanks again!

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Oh, your solution works fine with my workflow (such as it is) - just thought I should let you know about the discrepancy. Thanks for your help!