How to make git gui not show untracked files

Question

I have a lot of untracked files in my project. I would like to be able to tell git gui not to show them when showing the list of candidate-for-staging files. Is there a way to do that?

Similarly, it would be nice to be able to see only files in a certain .

Thank you for any help!

Answer 1

Just to make sure: in my case (maybe a rather old version of Git Gui: 0.20) the setting can be found using the following navigation:

Git Gui => Edit => Options

Now in the "Options" dialog there's a CheckBox in the lower-left area labeled #Show untracked files#.

De-selecting this option did the trick!

EDIT: The referenced CheckBox in the lower-left area is for the current branch - there's another one on the right side of this screen, which controls the handling on a global level (i.e. for all Git repository on your computer).