Toggle hide/show untracked files

[hzwangzi123456]

How to hide the untracked files in files？

[glvr182]

You mean like gitignore?

[jesseduffield]

This can be done at the repo level with the git config. Closing due to staleness

[epheien]

need toggle hide untracked files feature

[jesseduffield]

@epheien do you mean from within lazygit?

[epheien]

@epheien do you mean from within lazygit?

yes, I need not change git config and simply toggle show / hide untracked files, for example:

git status -uno # hide
git status # show

Some git client has this feature, such as Fork.app on macOS.

[jesseduffield]

I've updated the issue description for this use case

[cas--]

I was just trying out lazygit and this was an immediate issue since I had been testing npm apps in a repo but not made any commits so node_modules was still hanging around and the entire listing for that directory made the Files panel unusable upon first opening.

I thought that having a hide untracked files setting would be the solution for me however there are perhaps some UX improvements that could help as well.

Firstly I found the discussion in #1712 about how to navigate panels and it was non-obvious to me to use Enter to collapse a dir, I kept trying arrow keys. Also how do you navigate to top or bottom of the file panel since PgUp or PgDn navigates in the change panel.

One small improvement might be for untracked directories (or very long directory listings) to be collapsed by default?

A further improvement would be to sort by tracked first and prefixing dirs with ?? or M. This would emulate the short git status. (side-note I feel dot prefix files really should sort first):

I hope this helps in deciding what to do with this issue

I would like to add that I would like the option to add the untracked file I see.

[mark2185]

I would like to add that I would like the option to add the untracked file I see.

Add it as in "stage it"? Pressing space should do it.

hi @mark2185,
thanks for getting back to me. I have set

[status]
showuntrackedfiles = no

in my git config. I don't want to see untracked files in git status on command line. I add the files I need (seeing all files on the commandline with ls).

However, I do not see untracked files in lazygit. My guess is, lazygit picks that setting up. But I don't see all or untracked files in lazygit, hence I can't add them on demand. I leave lazygit, add the files and start lazygit again to continue to work on the commit. I would like to able to switch view of (un-)tracked files within lazygit so I don't have to leave to the command line an back. I hope that explanation clears things up a bit.

[mark2185]

Oh yes, that clears things up quite a bit.

@jesseduffield maybe the showuntrackedfiles setting should only change the initial state of the filter?

Those with said setting will have the filter Show only staged files, others will have it set to no filter, and the Files pane should always show all the files and then filter them out if needed?

[jesseduffield]

I agree about showuntrackedfiles determining the initial state, but in this case Show only staged files won't do because we still want to show unstaged, tracked files.