Parent .gitignore files seem to not work the way git works

[brandonweiss]

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Describe the bug / provide steps to reproduce it

I think this must have changed recently because I don’t think this was an issue before… it seems like it cropped up in the last few weeks or months.

Basically I have a directory structure like this:

/Users/brandon/.gitignore
/Users/brandon/Developer/app/.gitignore
/Users/brandon/Developer/app/vendor/ruby

In my root .gitignore I include vendor/ruby. It’s not in the app .gitignore because this is more a vagary of how I install dependencies, and not something that everyone who works on the app does.

git properly ignores vendor/ruby by seeing the root .gitignore file. But zed shows vendor/ruby in the project panel. When I Go to File or do a project search vendor/ruby is also included in the results.

I found a few existing issues (like this one #21370 and this one #6998) which confuse me even more about this because it sounds like people want zed to not respect parent .gitignore files? Which seems to be different from how git itself works?

Steps to reproduce

I think this should do it:

cd ~/
touch .gitignore
echo "vendor/ruby" > .gitignore
mkdir app
cd app
git init
touch .gitignore
mkdir vendor
mkdir vendor/ruby
touch vendor/ruby/some-file

Running git status in ~/app should not show vendor/ruby/some-file because it has been ignored by the ~/.gitignore.

If you open ~/app in zed, zed shows vendor/ruby/some-file in the project panel in a bright color (not ignored) and CMD-P shows vendor/ruby/some-file in the list of files to open.

I would expect vendor/ruby/some-file to be greyed out in the project panel (indicating it is ignored) and CMD-P should not show vendor/ruby/some-file in the list of files to open.

Zed Version and System Specs

Zed: v0.169.3 (Zed)
OS: macOS 15.0.1
Memory: 36 GiB
Architecture: aarch64

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Zed.log

[notpeter]

Can you edit your description to provide (1) a concise set of explicit steps to reproduce (2) the current behavior of zed (3) your expected behavior?

[brandonweiss]

@notpeter I added more to the description—is that what you’re looking for?