Dynamically respecting .gitignore

[miguel9554]

As explained in README, gitignore can be respected by setting as a default command rg for example.

With rg, --no-ignore allows to ignore .gitignore. How can I pass this flag to rg from fzf, if I've set FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='rg --files'?

[LangLangBart]

• If you have FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='rg --files' set in your .bashrc/.zshrc, you should be able to simply add a keybinding when running fzf, for example:

fzf --bind 'ctrl-a:reload:eval $FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND --no-ignore'
# or
fzf --bind 'ctrl-a:reload:rg --files --no-ignore'

man rg
       -u, --unrestricted ...
           Reduce the level of "smart" searching. A single -u won't respect
           .gitignore (etc.) files (--no-ignore). Two -u flags will
           additionally search hidden files and directories (-./--hidden).
           Three -u flags will additionally search binary files (--binary).
 
           rg -uuu is roughly equivalent to grep -r.

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• If you want to switch between the two variants read the ADVANCED.md.

[miguel9554]

@LangLangBart thanks for the answer, github does not notify so I've just seen it.

This wouldn't work for my use case, I actually want to control ignore of files from vim, using fzf.vim. I think the keybind approach would not work. I'm looking to pass some extra args to fzf, that would eventually be passed to rg. Maybe it's better to explore the solution in fzf.vim directly? Thanks