Hide untracked files

[orome]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

In shared setting (e.g. Binder) many files that are irrelevant to a project are created as part of the build process, and users do not create new files that can be added. It would be great if these untracked files were hidden.

Describe the solution you'd like

It would be great to either have a setting that hid untracked files, or one that honored status.showUntrackedFiles.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I've tried maintaining an exclude, but this becomes unwieldy and fragile, as it requires detailed knowledge of the files added by the hosted build.

[fcollonval]

Hey @orome thanks for reaching out.

It does not sound like we need a new feature because Git as already its own way (aka adding the files to .gitignore). It will confuse people to add yet another place.

[fcollonval]

You can add the binder files to the gitignore file in the same way that people are ignoring a bunch of folders for specific editors; no harm done if files are not existing.