Use .gitignore to hide files in explorer

[mtripp100]

Forking #23804 on the advice of @isidorn as it was conflating two issues - colouring and hiding gitignored files in the file explorer.

• Greying/colouring works great as of 1.18.
• Hiding them completely still requires an extension or manually syncing ignored patterns with the files.exclude setting.

I would love a separate setting which completely hides files instead of just greying them out. Thanks.

[derwaldgeist]

I'd like to support this. I'm coming from Atom and used to not having my .gitignored files clutter my folder structure.

[isidorn]

fyi @joaomoreno @jrieken

[tanzislam]

For the moment, if people would tolerate the use of a plugin for this, the most accurate one I know of (in terms of using relevant entries from multiple .gitignore files, wildcard entries, etc. etc.) is this one.

I've tested two other plugins, but the edge-case bugs/limitations are frankly maddening. (It matters for me because my build system dynamically writes out .gitignore files in various subdirectories and I need my editor to respect them.)

[HitomiTenshi]

• Requested on Nov 21, 2017
• Labeled on Nov 22, 2017

Today is July 29, 2018 and there is still no real answer or progress being made to support this feature.

I come from Atom as well and gave VS Code a chance. Working with TypeScript and Sass creates a bunch of compiled JavaScript and CSS files which all clutter the Explorer a lot. I guess I'll stay with Atom for a while longer.

[jsardev]

@HitomiTenshi Yeah, you had more than one year to contribute and all you do is complain 😛 I don't want to be rude but... C'mon, it's open-source, you don't pay a penny for an awesome piece of software and still demand from the team to add all the features you want. OSS is something different than this.