VSCode Flutter - stop tracking Flutter repo changes

Question

I can't figure out when this started, but suddenly I find my repo tracking all my changes just fine, but...

There's another repo open - like the entire Flutter source - and my source control is tracking thousands of changes.

Is there some easy way to turn this off? I can't seem to find it.

TIA

Solution

The solution is to add the path to the flutter repo to the "git.ignoredRepositories" list either in the user or workspace settings.

"git.ignoredRepositories": [
        "/path/to/flutter"
    ]

I had to reload/restart the vscode window for it to take effect.

--

An alternative is to change git.AutoRepositoryDetection from true to subFolders. This will keep scanning the current folder and sub folders but avoids tracking flutter.

Comments

[Kohls]

Works flawlessly, unfortunately needs a restart in vscode

[David]

"git.autoRepositoryDetection": false. Even simpler as you don't need path

[stackunderflow]

i hate vscode. how to do without it?

[felix-ht]

@David this is not a good idea because usually users want git repos within the workspace folder to be detected.

[David]

@felix-ht, you are right but that was excactly what I wanted to do in my case