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I am using counsel-git to find and open files.

Is there any way to ignore folders and files that are ending with specific pattern.

For example: ignore folders named: .idea ; and files ended with *.save and *.xml or specific as -i or .gitignore. All the folders starting with . always show up on top; I just want to ignore some of them which I do not use.


config file:

(ivy-mode 1)
(setq ivy-use-virtual-buffers t)
(setq enable-recursive-minibuffers t)

(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g") 'counsel-git)

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counsel-git is calling counsel-git-cands to build the list of files.
counsel-git-cands is running the shell command, which is stored in variable counsel-git-cmd, which has the value "git ls-files -z --full-name --".

So you have two different options:

  1. modify the result of function counsel-git-cands to remove files from the list, you do not want. i.e. add an advice, which filters the results: (advice-add 'counsel-git-cands :filter-return #'my-filter-counsel-git-cands). Read more about advicing at the elisp manual.
  2. change the shell command line git ls-files.... to sort out files you do not want. i.e. by using the command line option --exclude. You need to experiment with git ls-files a bit with that here. Read man page of git-ls-files (1).
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  • For example I have changed it into git ls-files -z --full-name -- *[^.xml] but still it returns "xml" files
    – alper
    Nov 22, 2020 at 17:06
  • Please read the manpage of git-ls-files! or use method 1.
    – jue
    Nov 22, 2020 at 22:32
  • *[^.xml] lets to exclude files that are ending with xml but when I make that change on the consel.el file it does not make any change in the emacs itself
    – alper
    Nov 22, 2020 at 22:55
  • I'm not familiar with git's command line, but this -- looks supicious. Normaly this is some sort of parameter separator for command line options.
    – jue
    Nov 22, 2020 at 23:04
  • I have followed this guide : stackoverflow.com/a/53083343/2402577 ; for example ':!:test/*' ':!:*/test/*' stands out to prevent folders but even it works in the terminal, within emacs it does not
    – alper
    Nov 23, 2020 at 15:15

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