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I've noticed that Ubuntu 17.10 file indexing for search (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Tracker I believe) skips folders that contain git repo's. I'm guessing this is because most repo's have a large amount of files. This is for searching from the Meta-menu/activity overview.

There are a few repo's on my PC that I use for literature, and it would be great if those were indexed. Is there a way to change this standard behavior? I can't seem to find any instructionto change nor mentions of this behavior.

I see that on systems with tracker-preferences available it is rather easy: How to stop a file or folder from being indexed in GNOME? On Ubuntu 17.10 I'm not sure where to find these settings, possibly using dconf?

Lars Gebraad
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So the only way to do this currently (that I found) is apparently the dconf-editor. The key entry to be changed is: /org.freedesktop.Tracker.Miner.Files ignored-directories-with-content.

I changed it's value from ['.trackerignore', '.git'] to ['.trackerignore'].

Lars Gebraad
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