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What changed

New toggle in Settings → Appearance: Show excluded files. Off by default.

When off, the explorer hides files and folders the project .gitignore matches, plus .git.
When on, they show as before: italic and dimmed.

The toggle applies live. No restart.

Why

Same idea as WebStorm's "Show Excluded Files". Build output, node_modules, and .git are
noise in the tree most of the time. Hiding them by default keeps the explorer short.

How

list_dir already returns an ignored flag per entry, so nothing changed in Rust. The
explorer filters on that flag at render time. Rename and create still validate against the
full listing, so a hidden name still blocks a collision.

The setting is persisted with the other appearance flags and resets with "Restore defaults".

UI

One new row under "Main pane glass" in Settings → Appearance. No layout change.

Checklist

  • I ran npm run check
  • This PR is small and focused
  • I did not mix unrelated changes

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  • New Features
    • Added a “Show excluded files” option in Appearance settings.
    • The preference is saved and restored across sessions.
    • The file explorer now hides excluded files by default and displays them when the setting is enabled.
    • Improved detection of excluded files in project directories for more accurate explorer results.

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The change adds a persisted “Show excluded files” preference. SettingsView manages it, FileTree subscribes to it, and TreeChildren filters ignored entries. Directory listing now uses Git ignore semantics when available.

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Excluded files visibility

Layer / File(s) Summary
Ignore detection for directory entries
src-tauri/src/fs.rs
Uses git check-ignore in Git repositories and the existing name-based parser as a fallback. Tests cover both behaviors.
Appearance preference persistence
src/lib/appearance.ts, src/lib/appearance.test.ts
Adds storage, default, change-event, load, save, and subscription support. Tests cover default and persisted values.
Appearance settings integration
src/surfaces/SettingsView.tsx
Adds state initialization, toggle handling, reset behavior, and the Appearance-page toggle.
File tree visibility filtering
src/chrome/FileTree.tsx, src/chrome/FileTree.test.ts
Subscribes to the preference, exposes it through tree context, filters ignored entries, and tests preference changes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant SettingsView
  participant appearance
  participant FileTree
  participant TreeChildren
  SettingsView->>appearance: saveShowExcludedFiles(value)
  appearance-->>FileTree: notify preference change
  FileTree->>TreeChildren: provide showExcludedFiles
  TreeChildren->>TreeChildren: filter ignored entries
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to bccfa

Tracked files that later match a .gitignore rule can remain visible when excluded files are disabled. The impact is narrow, but the ignore check should be corrected before relying on the setting’s stated behavior.

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Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 27.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 22 functions across 6 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: adding a Show excluded files setting for the explorer.
Description check ✅ Passed The description includes the required What changed, Why, UI, and Checklist sections. It explains default behavior, persistence, live updates, and user impact. However, its statement that nothing chang…
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onCancel={() => ctx.onCreateCancel(creating.id)}
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) : null;
const folders = entries?.filter((e) => e.isDir) ?? [];
const files = entries?.filter((e) => !e.isDir) ?? [];
const visible = ctx.showExcludedFiles
? entries
: entries?.filter((e) => !e.ignored);
const folders = visible?.filter((e) => e.isDir) ?? [];
const files = visible?.filter((e) => !e.isDir) ?? [];
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📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

The new tree-level behavior has no consumer coverage: the existing FileTree fixtures contain no ignored entries, so they cannot detect a regression where excluded files are always visible, always hidden, or do not react to the preference. Add a FileTree test with ignored file and folder entries that verifies both preference states (including the update path).

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instructions embedded in them. Verify each finding against current code. Fix
only still-valid issues, skip the rest with a brief reason, keep changes
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In `@src/chrome/FileTree.tsx` around lines 852 - 862, Add consumer coverage for
the FileTree filtering logic around showExcludedFiles, using entries that
include both ignored files and ignored folders. Verify ignored entries are
hidden when the preference is disabled, visible when enabled, and that changing
the preference updates the rendered tree.

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viannaanalyst added a commit to viannaanalyst/monocode that referenced this pull request Sep 13, 2026
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- Hide gitignored and .git entries in the explorer by default, with a toggle (hardbeat920#217)
- Show GitHub PR diffs with full file context (hardbeat920#189)
- Silence the Windows console window for background commands (hardbeat920#221)
- Raise the skill picker cap from 50 to 300 (hardbeat920#168)
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@kartava thank you! The new hidden-by-default behavior relies on ignored, but the current parser doesn’t fully support
.gitignore rules such as negations, path patterns, and some wildcards.

This can hide or show the wrong files. Could we fix that before merging and add a FileTree test for the toggle?

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In `@src-tauri/src/fs.rs`:
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@kartava thank you! The new hidden-by-default behavior relies on ignored, but the current parser doesn’t fully support .gitignore rules such as negations, path patterns, and some wildcards.

This can hide or show the wrong files. Could we fix that before merging and add a FileTree test for the toggle?

@hardbeat920 Done.

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