Is It Possible to Ignore that You're in a Git Directory?

[ShiromMakkad]

Sometimes, I want to open a specific folder inside a git repo, often when I'm working in a monorepo. But then the file picker pulls up the whole repo's files. Is there a way to disable this?

On the subject, is there a way to show some .gitignored files? I don't want it to happen all the time, but certain times yes.

[kirawi]

You can create a .helix directory, but there are also language-specific workspace-roots (covered in the docs) that have the same effect of setting the base directory for the picker.

You can do :toggle file-picker.git-ignore