https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=503207
Bug ID: 503207
Summary: Please add a switch to disable using .gitignore for
project file listing
Classification: Applications
Product: kate
Version: 24.08.3
Platform: Other
OS: Linux
Status: REPORTED
Severity: wishlist
Priority: NOR
Component: general
Assignee: kwrite-bugs-n...@kde.org
Reporter: e...@horse64.org
Target Milestone: ---
SUMMARY
The project plugin is great to use and a total life saver compared to giant
IDEs that often take forever to load, especially with how lean kate is.
However, regarding one point it seems to be a little too smart: Please add a
switch to disable using .gitignore for project file listing of the "Projects"
plugin.
I would also suggest that perhaps this should be disabled by default. There are
multiple reasons why hiding files via .gitignore might be undesirable: 1. a
file could be listed in .gitignore because it's synced differently. This is an
extremely common use case with game projects, since most platforms don't allow
storing many large files (even GitHub for example has tight limits on files via
git-lfs for free accounts). This is also a common use case for credentials that
may be synced but in a different, less public way. 2. A file could be listed in
.gitignore because it's part of a different repository, but linked or copied in
place regularly for parallel use in this project. 3. A file could be listed in
.gitignore because it's just a local experiment that's not meant to be
committed by accident. 4. The user may be trying to edit a file inside a git
repository without being aware of caring that the file is in a git repository,
in which case hiding things might be surprising.
In all of these use cases, the user may want to still edit the file, and it's
not obvious at all how to do so right now. Also, it seems to be kind of against
the principles of kate to be a simple text editor that isn't trying to do tons
of IDE things out of the box the user may not want, to simply hide these files
and 1. not make it obvious they're hidden (I never realized that's an intended
behavior) and 2. not make it obvious how to show them (even as a setting
somewhere deep in the preferences, this may not be obvious to new users).
My apologies if there's already a setting and I simply missed it.
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Try to disable .gitignore based file listing, in favor of a plain
what's-on-the-disk file listing.
OBSERVED RESULT
There doesn't seem to be an associated setting in the "Projects" settings pane.
EXPECTED RESULT
There is an associated setting, and perhaps it should be enabled by default.
SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Windows:
macOS:
(available in the Info Center app, or by running `kinfo` in a terminal window)
Linux/KDE Plasma: postmarketOS v24.12
KDE Plasma Version: 6.2.4
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.8.0
Qt Version: 6.8.0
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