Always unhide .github/

[peterbe]

❯ fd  test-translations
# note, nothing found

❯ fd --hidden test-translations
.github/workflows/test-translations.yml

But if I have to use --hidden, it'll also show a bunch of other "junk".
How can I train fd to not treat .github (for example) as a hidden directory? Ideally in a global config file because I don't want to have to remember copy some local .fdignore file into every git repo root.

PS. .fdignore might not at all be the right direction anyway because it's not that I want to ignore more, I want to ignore less kinda.

[tmccombs]

I think you could do:

--hidden --excluse ".*" --exclude "!.github"

That is enable searching hidden files, but exclude all files that start with "." except for . github

[peterbe]

Doesn't work either. Sadly. Thanks for trying to help, I really appreciate it.

# Expected
❯ fd dependabot.yml

# Also expected
❯ fd --hidden dependabot.yml
.github/dependabot.yml

# Unfortunately
❯ fd --hidden --exclude '.*' --exclude '!.github/**' dependabot.yml

[tmccombs]

huh, I could have sworn I got it to work with that. but now it isn't working for me either. Although I don't know why.

FWIW,

rg --hidden --files -g '!.*' -g '.github/**'

also doesn't work, which makes me wonder if the ignore crate isn't properly handling adding back something that is ignored by another rule.

[tmccombs]

Interesting. So if I create a .ignore file that looks like:

.*
!.github

then run fd --hidden dependabot.yml then it finds the file.

However, if I run fd --hidden --exclude '.*' --exclude '!.github' dependabot.yml then it doesn't find it.

[peterbe]

then run fd --hidden dependabot.yml then it finds the file.

Well, doesn't that just ignore (no pun intended) any filtering of the sorts. So it's like sudo mode.

[tmccombs]

No --hidden just enables searching hidden files and directories (files that start with "."). It doesn't turn off the parsing ignore files, you would need --no-ignore for that.

[airled]

Hi there. Seems like it is not possible at the moment. But you can use a not so readable non-fd way with grep. Something like this:

fd -H test | grep -E -v '(\.\/\.)(?<!github)'

You use -H here to match also hidden files and directories. Then you filter fd's output with grep which excludes all hidden entries except github using negative lookbehind assertion. Should help you for time.