Vim has this great plugin to convert the current project's .gitignore into a syntax understandable by Vim and from there exclude all those files from opening.
Using Sublime Text 3's 'Go to Anything' (CMD+P), I get lots of files I'm not interested in, such as stuff under .build and .meteor.
Is there something similar for ST3?
I created a quick-and-dirty plugin, sublime-gitignorer, to solve exactly this problem.
It is currently tested on Ubuntu and Windows in Sublime Text 2 and 3. I expect it will also work on any other Linux distro or on Mac.
To install, assuming you have package control, just:
Alternatively, if you don't have package control you can copy gitignore_plugin.py to your Packages directory, which you can locate by selecting Browse Packages... from the Preferences menu in Sublime. You should really get Package Control instead, though - it's useful.
I'm not kidding when I say this plugin is dirty. The way it works is that the plugin, every five seconds:
file_exclude_patterns and folder_exclude_patterns settings.Seems to work okay for most users, though - at least as long as the folders you're opening in Sublime aren't too huge. The presence of giant folders (e.g a typical node_modules folder) can, in combination with this plugin, slow Sublime to a crawl.
Anyone looking to contribute or report bugs should check out the issues page.