Option to automatically exclude .ruff_cache from file explorer and search

[jackpeplinski]

It would improve developer experience if the Ruff VS Code extension offered an option to automatically add .ruff_cache/ to files.exclude and search.exclude global settings.

Since .ruff_cache/ is auto-generated and not meant to be edited or searched, this behavior would align with how VS Code handles other similar folders, e.g., node_modules/.

Ideally, the extension would detect the folder and prompt the user to exclude it from the file explorer and search results. This would also demphasize the folder by greying-it-out. Happy to implement if others think this would useful!

[MichaReiser]

That does sound useful. Although I'm a bit surprised that this is necessary, given that .ruff_cache has a .gitignore.

[dhruvmanila]

Regarding the two settings that you've mentioned, I agree that it'd be useful to exclude it from files.exclude as there's no point in seeing that folder in the explorer. But, that should be automatically done when .ruff_cache is included in your project's .gitignore file as per explorer.excludeGitignore setting.

And, for search.exclude, can you provide me which search bar gives you the .ruff_cache directory as I couldn't find any that gives me that as the search result.

[dhruvmanila]

Actually, scratch that, I think this would be useful. This would need to be implemented via the contributes.configurationDefaults (https://code.visualstudio.com/api/references/contribution-points#contributes.configurationDefaults) which needs to be added in package.json.