Is there a way to stop tracking folder in VS Code with out gitignore?

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I have a dist folder that I want to build locally and put it on Heroku every time during development. But I want VS Code to stop tracking files in the folder, for example during a search

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered May 11 '20 at 08:32

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A possible duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/a/33277809/13378612

You can exclude the dist folder in your workspace using files.exclude. (Of course this does not prevent git to track the changes in dist.)

answered May 11 '20 at 08:32

kampmani

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I'd appreciate any comments regarding the quality of my answer in order to avoid down voting in the future. – kampmani May 11 '20 at 14:46
Actually your comment was more helpful, thank you! Unfortunately I don't have rights to vote yet. – Dvdgld May 16 '20 at 18:29
Now I can, fixed id :) – Dvdgld May 17 '20 at 06:02

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 11 '20 at 08:26

I feel like you are mixing git with your IDE: say your project folder was not tracked via Git, then you would not have a .gitignore file to edit.

I found this very nice guide by Donovan Brown to achieve what you ask. I'll post the relevant steps:

in Preferences > Open Workspace Settings
search for files.exclude in the yaml
add pairs <URL>:<bool>, if bool is true the file is ignored

Is there a way to stop tracking folder in VS Code with out gitignore?

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