Re: project-find-file: switch to include non-tracked files

[Manuel Uberti]

On 14/10/21 14:01, Dmitry Gutov wrote:
> As an aside, I can see what kind of problem this is solving, and this is a 
> (meta) problem by itself. We need, like, ignores which are still honored when we 
> don't use any other ignore instructions. Maybe a separate variable or something? 
> AFAICS helm-ls-git doesn't have anything for this.

> The above will continue to work until we try to move the listing logic to a 
> backend-specific method. Then vc-directory-exclusion-list won't be referenced 
> anymore. That's the main reason this feature is not in emacs-28 anyway.

I didn't know about this.

> Also note that 'find' gets a noticeable slowdown the more ignore entries we ask 
> it to handle. Consider removing some entries from vc-directory-exclusion-list as 
> well.

Interesting, I didn't know about this either, but see below.

> As a rough guess, perhaps some directories in this repo are not readable for 
> you?

Yes, great tip, you nailed it. There is one directory I cannot read in there, so 
I just added that to vc-directory-exclusion-list and everything works as 
expected now.

Thanks a lot!

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