I am trying to hide my .gitignore file in the VSCode project file explorer.
If I use this expression:
**/.*
Then .git, among a few others, will become hidden.
But when I try this:
**/.gitignore
I am still unable to hide it. I also tried a few other things, like these:
**/.git*
**/*.git*
**/*.gitignore
I feel a little silly, sorry! Thanks for your time, I sincerely appreciate it. It seems like a little silly thing, but I want to know!
The format in Visual Studio should be
**/.git
You could also make a global git ignore on your computer like this:
Make a hidden file in terminal called “.gitignore_global”
$ open ~/.gitignore_global
$ git config --global core.excludesfile ~/.gitignore_global
You can then edit this file by using vim or nano. Dealer's choice :)
vim ~/.gitignore_global
or
nano ~/.gitignore_global
and add your gitignore stuff like this:
.gitignore
*.gitignore
**/.gitignore*
The pros of making a global file is you will only need to do it once. Here is some info I found on it: https://medium.com/self-modifying-code/create-a-global-gitignore-step-by-step-for-macos-and-windows-31a765291409
I hope this helps!