ignore folders at the root of workspace not properly ignored

[adrien-perello]

This is linked to #304

Let's assume that the structure of my workspace in vscode is as follow:

workspace
  ├ foam directory
  | ├ _layout/
  | ├ notes/
  | ├ A/
  | └ index.md
  |
  ├ folder1 (with many other files)
  └ folder2 (with many other files)

From #304, we know how to ignore A/. But I don't manage to ignore all the other files (in folders at the root of the workspace: folder1/, folder2/) from showing up in the graph view.

I added "foam.files.ignore": [] in 'settings.json' in both the workspace and the user (I also tried adding ../ in front of the paths), but it does not ignore the folders. Only the folders that are inside my 'foam directory' seems to be ignorable.

And I much rather avoid having several vscode windows opened 😅 Any clue how we could go about it? 😃

[pderaaij]

Just wondering, given it's a glob I would wonder if /*/folder1 would work or perhaps /**/folder1 could work? Might be interesting to give a try and see if that solves it?

[riccardoferretti]

My guess (without having looked closely at the implementation) is that the glob use the workspace folder as root (/), so it won't filter by that.
In a way it's as if the workspace folders namespace is unified before the globbing takes place.
This needs to be validated, it's just my hunch atm

[pderaaij]

I would expect that when #730 is merged, you can ignore the folders successfully by using a glob as /folder1 of /**/folder1

[riccardoferretti]

Closing as I believe it's been fixed and has been inactive for a long time