request for a help with cody ignore feature.
I want to ignore a folder Library/ but want to exclude from ignore a folder inside it : Library/PackageCache
Is there any way to do this?
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Any updates here? Guys?
Hi @wellmorq did you follow these instructions?
Hi!
What do you mean? There are no instructions on how to exclude a folder from an excluded folder.
By the way, is it .cody/ignore or .codyignore? The instructions talk about both options.
It seems that in the docs provided there is a typo. In the paragraph it means .cody/ignore instead of .codyignore
So please create a folder .cody at the root path of your project in which you create a file called ignore. In this file you provide the files and folder as relative path to your project root directory which should be ignored.
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Gotcha!
Maybe you know something about the second question?
I want to exclude folder /Library.
But
not to exclude the folder /Library/PackageCache
Right now I haven’t seen the docs on how I can make it.
I guess it works similar like gitignore. For folders not excluded as a whole you need to explicitly define which sub-folders should be excluded and which not.
- Library (pass)
-- Folder1 (excluded)
-- Folder2 (pass)
-- Folder3 (excluded)
Maybe glob patterns are working, but I don’t know for sure.
If this solution does not work for your use case, maybe you can split your Library folder into excluded and included.
Nope, it doesnt work 
For gitignore I have to use such syntax:
[Ll]ibrary/
[Tt]emp/
*.csproj
// and for exclude from excluded:
![Ll]ibrary/PackageCache
But it doesn’t work with Cody:
I only hope the *.meta syntax will at least work.
I guess RegEx is not supported.
You need to exclude files and folders literally.
The Library folder created by codegen via source engine (Unity). And it contains >100 folders and a lot of files where I need exclude-from-exclude the only one.
I suppose I could write a script that would populate the file each time before running Cody.
It’s not very convenient, but as a workaround…
Let’s see how Cody’s indexing algorithm reacts, I’m very worried that it will either not trigger when a file changes (as it did before) and files will not be excluded, or absolutely all files will be excluded.
Or it will trigger every time and that means re-indexing every day for 5-6 hours. Ok, I can start my PC 5-6 hours earlier.
I just hope Cody doesn’t freak out if I have thousands of lines in this file. Cody is definitely not well suited for large projects
Anyway, thx for the reply and trying to help! I’m really appreciate this
If you type Library/PackageCache won’t this exclude only this folder and passes all other folders along?
Would it help if you could toggle directly in the file explore of VS Code to exclude/include folders and files?
Of course, that would be super convenient.
The thing is, I want Cody to keep processing the Library/PackageCache. But exclude absolutely all other files and folders.
Perhaps a better option would be to just follow the .gitignore formatting rules completely. I.e. !Library/PackageCache/ for example to exclude, etc.
Seems like that would be easier to both do and maintain, and it would cause a lot less questions.
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