feat: zero-config indexing driven by .gitignore (#283)#285
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Remove .codegraph/config.json and the entire config surface. CodeGraph now indexes every file whose extension maps to a supported language and respects .gitignore everywhere — git repos via git itself, non-git projects via the `ignore` library (root + nested .gitignore files, the same way git does). - Remove CodeGraphConfig/DEFAULT_CONFIG, src/config.ts, and the public config API (the `config` option on init, getConfig/updateConfig/getConfigPath). - Derive the source-file allowlist from EXTENSION_MAP (isSourceFile); maxFileSize is now a constant. Drop the .codegraphignore marker. - Behavior change: committed, non-gitignored dirs (vendor/, a committed dist/) are now indexed — .gitignore is the single source of truth. Earlier inert fields (languages, frameworks, extractDocstrings, trackCallSites, customPatterns) and their dead helpers are removed as part of this. Resolves #283. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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What & why
Closes #283. The issue asked us to document the config — but investigating it showed the config was mostly inert or broken, so we removed it entirely and made CodeGraph zero-config.
CodeGraph now indexes every file whose extension maps to a supported language and respects
.gitignoreeverywhere:git ls-files --exclude-standard), already the casegit init) — by reading.gitignorefiles directly, root + nested, via theignorelibrary so negation/anchoring/nested rules behave exactly like gitThere's no config file to write or keep in sync.
Changes
.codegraph/config.jsonand the whole config surface. Every field was inert (languages,frameworks,extractDocstrings,trackCallSites,customPatternswere never consumed;languagesvalidation was also broken — it rejected every language added after the original 8) or now redundant with.gitignore.include→ derived fromEXTENSION_MAP(isSourceFile);exclude→.gitignore;maxFileSize→ a constant (1 MB).src/config.ts,CodeGraphConfig/DEFAULT_CONFIG, the dead helpers (addCustomPattern/addIncludePatterns/addExcludePatterns/isSafeRegex), and the.codegraphignoremarker.configoption onCodeGraph.init(),getConfig(),updateConfig(),getConfigPath, and theCodeGraphConfigtype are gone. Existingconfig.jsonfiles are simply ignored.Behavior change⚠️
Committed files that are not gitignored are now indexed even under
vendor/,Pods/, or a committeddist/— previously a hardcoded exclude list skipped those names..gitignoreis now the single source of truth. Documented in the README.Validation
npm run buildclean; 722/722 tests pass (config tests rewritten to cover the new.gitignore-based behavior, nested-.gitignorescoping, andisSourceFile)..gitignore→node_modules/distexcluded,srcindexed, noconfig.jsonwritten ✅.gitignore→ ignored dirs excluded via the new walk ✅node_modules→ indexed (documented tradeoff) ✅🤖 Generated with Claude Code