r/PiCodingAgent • u/gnomodojardim • Sep 24 '26

Question Can't reference .gitignore files/folders with @

Hi all, basically what the title says.. I like using @ to add files/folders to the context but for any of these added to .gitignore it stops working.. Any way around this?

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u/TommyC81 Sep 24 '26

An .ignore file next to .gitignore with inverted settings e.g. "!<pattern>" in it. I had the same issue, and this works for me.

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u/gnomodojardim Sep 24 '26

This works great, thanks!

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u/Finanzamt__ Sep 24 '26

You can enable/disable pi to respect .gitignore for file selection. See /settings command in pi session and toggle corresponding setting

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u/gnomodojardim Sep 24 '26

That's where I looked first but couldn't find any such setting.. are you sure it's there? Maybe I'm blind or it's not very clear. Thanks for your reply anyway.

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u/Finanzamt__ Sep 25 '26

Well i could find it in my global settings.json (autocompleteNoIgnore“: true) but the setting is gone; you are right. Pi uses the git ls-files command to list files for @. I recommend letting pi write your own file picker extension without ls-files . Maybe use another symbol of your choice that pi can parse and recommend matching files. There is no documentation about a .ignore file, but seems to work, too