Use the contents of .git/info/exclude when useGitignore is set to true.

[motlin]

I leave useGitignore set to the default value of true. When running repomix, the repomix-output.txt still contains files that git ignores if they are listed in .git/info/exclude rather than .gitignore.

[motlin]

I'm not sure if repomix delegates to git to find ignored files, but the command git ls-files --ignored --others --exclude-standard lists all ignored files, regardless of where the ignore rules lives.

[yamadashy]

Hi, @motlin ! Thank you for reporting this issue! You're absolutely right - we've been missing .git/info/exclude in our implementation.

I'll take the command you mentioned (git ls-files --ignored --others --exclude-standard) as a reference and work to implement a fix that properly handles all Git ignore rules, regardless of where they're defined.

Thanks again for bringing this to our attention! I'll update this issue once the fix is implemented.

[motlin]

Is this something I could help with? I thought the fix might be as simple as https://github.com/motlin/repomix/commit/a719497ef4a90e357b2f89d845fd833d412f70a3 but I tested it manually and it didn't seem to work.

[yamadashy]

Hi @motlin,

Thanks for your investigation!

When we use ignoreFiles with globby, it applies pattern matching based on the relative paths from those ignore files.

For the solution, we likely need to read the .git/info/exclude file in the getIgnorePatterns function and pass the parsed patterns with parseIgnoreContent to the ignore option rather than the ignoreFiles option.

If you'd like to work on this, I'd be happy to assign this issue to you! Let me know if you're interested in implementing the fix.

[yamadashy]

Hi, @motlin !

This feature has been included in the 0.2.35 release. https://github.com/yamadashy/repomix/releases/tag/v0.2.35

Thank you for your first contribution to the project! I appreciate you taking the time to identify and fix this issue.

Looking forward to any future contributions you might consider!