Is there a way for neotree to ignore a specific .gitignore file

[mkwgnr]

To version control my dotfiles I ended up using the solution of having my entire $HOME configured as a git repository but by default have all files ignored via ~/.gitignore. This has the unfortunate side effect that NeoTree views every directory within $HOME as hidden, which is a bit inconvenient because I always have to unhide all the files and then wade through all the hidden files until I get to the "important stuff".

Is there a possibility to configure NeoTree to ignore this specific .gitignore file? Or do I have to turn off .gitignore support globally?

[pynappo]

Sorry for the late response. there's no method for this yet. but it should be simple to add some event hook that lets you modify the arguments used for the git status commands. maybe something like:

local events = require("neo-tree.events")
events.subscribe({
  event = events.BEFORE_GIT_STATUS,
  handler = function(args)
    if args.git_root = vim.env.HOME then
      local status_args = args.status_args
      status_args[#status_args + 1] = "--ignored=no"
    end  
  end
})

-- or you could add that { event = ..., handler = ... } to the `event_handlers` array within neotree.setup()

Although to suggest an alternative, I use a bare git repo + a shell alias for dotfiles version control (as described in https://www.atlassian.com/git/tutorials/dotfiles) so my home directory isn't a git repo unless I'm using the shell alias or setting the environment variables GIT_DIR/GIT_WORK_TREE.