Rooted gitignore patterns in global ignore list show up in file picker

[kmicklas]

Summary

By default Helix reads both the project-local .gitignore patterns and the global ~/.config/git/ignore patterns, and suppresses files matching them from appearing in the file picker.

Ignore patterns can be restricted to the repo root by prefixing them with /. For example /.envrc only matches a file called .envrc in the repo root. This appears to work correctly with the file picker when written in the project-local .gitignore. However when written in the global ignore list, it doesn't seem to have any effect.

Reproduction Steps

1. Add a rooted pattern, for example /a to ~/.config/git/ignore
2. Create a file called a in the root of a repo
3. See that a appears in the picker
4. Add /a to .gitignore in the repo
5. See that a does not appear in the picker

Helix log

No response

Platform

Linux

Terminal Emulator

alacritty

Installation Method

nixpkgs

Helix Version

helix 25.1

[kmicklas]

From a brief look at the code I suspected that this behavior comes from ignore, but interestingly ripgrep does not have the same issue.