projectile-helm-ag doesn't respect .gitignore file

[mydearxym]

In a git project, projectile-helm-ag searches files and directories in .gitignore.

see https://github.com/bbatsov/projectile/issues/709

[Cbeck527]

Any updates on this issue?

[amithgeorge]

I came across this bug. In my case, it only respects the top most .gitignore. If I have a .gitignore inside some directory with additional rules, then those files are not excluded from the search.

/root
 - .git
 - .gitignore //// these rules are respected
 - /some-dir
    - .gitignore //// the rules here are not respected

For the time being I copied the rules over from the inner gitignore to the outer one.

[xiongtx]

To ignore files, you can use the .projectile file at the project root.

I'll look into a more complete solution, but there's no ETA.

[Cbeck527]

What indexing method do you use? I think that I saw this bug go away after adding this to my init file:

(setq projectile-indexing-method 'git)

Though this could be a red herring... it's still unclear to me.

[rileyrg]

I want helm-projectile-ag to search in .gitignored directories. How do I do this?