How to resolve excessive file changes (10,000+) in Git Source Control

[naehansung]

My Git is detecting over 10,000 file changes in my project.

Unnecessary files (dependencies, build artifacts, IDE configs) are being tracked by Git and these should not be part of version control but are included.

I want to reduce the number of tracked files and discard all those.

Creating a .gitignore file and using git command doens't help and doing so only resulted in this :

what do I do?

[karthiknadig]

@naehansung You can add a .gitignore file inside the .vscode folder. If you want to ignore all files in it, you can just put * in the .gitignore file.

.gitignore: this will ignore all files in a directory

*

[arnavverma25]

Hi! I'm going through the same problem, and I'm a beginner. Can you please guide me through it? Where would the .vscode folder be? I've been trying to find it and no luck so far. Please let me know. Thank you so much.

[karthiknadig]

What is the parent folder where these changes are? The .vscode or `.venv‘ are in the root of your workspace. Without knowing what is the root for those large number of files it is hard to say.