feat(ignore): support global scope for the Devin ignore file - #2618
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Devin documents an enterprise-wide ignore file at ~/.codeium/.codeiumignore that applies across every repository, but DevinIgnore only ever emitted the project .devinignore. Thread global through the class and register devin as a global-capable ignore target, following the Kiro precedent. The global path deliberately keeps the legacy .codeium brand spelling, lives outside ~/.config/devin because it is documented in the Desktop docs tree rather than the CLI one, and is an enterprise feature. All three are recorded next to the constants, and the global read has no legacy-name fallback since that name is the only one documented there.
Both branches of fromFile now carry the flag, matching the Kiro and Zed implementations, and the docs sentence is split so the parenthetical no longer reads as if it covered devin too.
This was referenced Aug 7, 2026
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DevinIgnore.getSettablePathstook no arguments and always returned the project.devinignore, so the enterprise-wide ignore file Devin documents at~/.codeium/.codeiumignorewas unreachable. This threadsglobalthrough the class and registersdevininignoreProcessorGlobalToolTargets, following the Kiro precedent (kiro-ignore.ts) for a plain global ignore file.Three caveats about the global path
They are recorded in a comment next to the constants and in the docs prose, because each one looks like a mistake otherwise:
.devinignore(Desktop v3.1.7) covered only the project file; the global one is documented solely as~/.codeium/.codeiumignore. So unlike the project path, the global read has no.devinignorefallback - there is nothing to fall back to, and accepting one would invent a filename Devin never reads.~/.config/devin, where every other global Devin path lives.Notes
The ignore feature is deprecated overall, but global-scope additions to it have precedent -
zedgained exactly this in a00e515. The matrix cell becomes ignore ✅🌏 viagenerate:tables;pnpm dev gitignorereported no change, since the new path is outside the project. The ignore e2e spec's global matrix guard caught the new target and now covers it, verifying the real global write.Verified upstream: docs.devin.ai/desktop/context-awareness/windsurf-ignore - "placing a global
.codeiumignorefile in the~/.codeium/folder", under "For enterprise customers managing multiple repositories".Closes #2597
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