Feature: .gitignore should also act as .cgcignore

Feature request:

Nothing in .gitignore should be indexed, so usually we must not create a .cgcignore file.
In case we still need something to index, which is in .gitignore ist still could be added as a negated pattern (! prefixed) to the .cgcignore.

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Opened #1680 for this. Layering is defaults → .gitignore → .cgcignore, and since matching is last-match-wins the escape hatch you described works: dist/ in .gitignore plus !dist/ in .cgcignore still indexes it. It hooks into build_ignore_spec, the one place discovery, the SCIP pipeline and the watcher already share, so all three pick it up.

One thing worth a maintainer's call: it changes what gets indexed by default for existing repos. Easy to put behind a config flag if opt-in is preferred.

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github-actions commented on Mar 16, 2026

AloysJehwin commented on Aug 28, 2026

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