[egit-jgit] excluded patterns are decorated as being untracked

[Galder Zamarreno <galder.zamarreno@redhat.com>]

Hi,

I've been using egit for a few weeks and firstly, I'd like to thank the 
people involved in the project for the work done so far.

There's one thing that has been bugging me about egit though which is 
related to the decoration of untracked files. Egit/JGit does not seem to 
pay attention to .git/info/exclude that I have configured so that 
anything under output folder is excluded.

Egit/JGit does seem to have decorations working fine for patterns 
specified in "Team/Ignored Resources" but it only applies it to files 
not folders, hence, adding "output" as pattern does not work and 
instead, I have to specify any pattern that would match a file within 
the output folder which is not practical. Folders are taken into account 
as ignored resources in subeclipse (subversion eclipse plugin)

I can see two ways of implementing this that I'm happy to have a look 
into but I wanted to get some advice from the experts of egit/jgit to 
indicate which would be the preferred solution going forward.

1.- Implement .git/info/exclude functionality in egit/jgit

2.- Improve the decoration handling in jgit/egit so that it can check 
whether the file is under a pattern that should be excluded. I tried to 
implement this but requires using API that eclipse considers internal.

What do people think? Should I bother with 2 or is it better to 
implement decorations for patterns in .git/info/exclude correctly?

Thanks!
-- 
Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Maintenance Engineer
JBoss, a division of Red Hat