Get git not to show untracked files

Question

When doing git commit, is there a way to not display the untracked files in my editor (defined in $EDITOR)? I know how to do so in the shell (

Answer 1

If you don't ever want to commit them to your repo, use a .gitignore file to ignore them. More details can be found on the gitignore man page. They won't show up as untracked files when entering your commit message in your $EDITOR.

If you simply don't want to see them when committing, set the Git config variable status.showUntrackedFiles to no, as noted here:

$ git config --global status.showUntrackedFiles no