Per directory ignore in TextMate

Question

I love idea of TextMate that any directory opened in it is already a project. But sometimes I it would be good to ignore files for certain dir and I don't like idea of creating project file in that dir or remembering how I named project file in some special folder like ~/.tmproject. Is there some sort of plugin or something like this which will allow me to ignore files in dir? Perfect solution would be reading .gitignore file.

Answer 1

If you're not dead-set against the idea of a .tmproject file at the root of your project, I think that's a sensible place to keep them, especially if you match them in your global .gitignore settings for your user.

That said, you can ignore items in through TextMate's preferences: look under Advanced → Folder References. It's one long regular expression pattern separated by |pipes| so just add yours in there.

You can't get the TM ignore pattern from a .gitignore file, since that would be a per-project setting (...which are stored in .tmproject files: chicken-and-egg problem!).

Another way around this would be to use the command line mate command to open the list of files you want. Something like this will open just the files that are checked into git:

mate `git ls-tree --name-only HEAD`

For drag & drop convenience, throw an Applescript Automator wrapper around that and you're set.