Exclusion via wildignore has side effects.

[pda]

Thanks for ctrlp.vim - it's great!

Your documentation suggests using wildignore to exclude files, which works, but has side effects. For example, adding .git to wildignore breaks Gdiff in fugitive.

I'm not sure if this should be fixed in fugutive or in ctrlp.vim, but it seems like adding a separate exclusion mechanism to ctrlp.vim would be a nice solution.

As another example use case, I'd like to exclude hidden files/directories from ctrlp.vim, but I'd still like to be able to tab complete :e ~/.vim/bundle/fugi... to edit vim plugins; wildignoring */.*/* seems to prevent that.

Let me know if there's anything I can do to help.

Cheers!
Paul

[kien]

Hi Paul,

There's a custom ignore option you can use: g:ctrlp_custom_ignore

Regarding the wildignore issue, some people may have .git in their wildignore and not just for ctrlp. In that case, it still breaks fugitive and there's nothing I can do to help it.

[pda]

Excellent - thanks, that's exactly what I was after.

Do you think it's worth updating the README to suggest g:ctrlp_custom_ignore as an alternative?

[kien]

Yes, certainly.

Thanks!