Make VS Code ignore files under /var/folders/

Question

When I use the "Go to file..." function in VS Code (command + P on mac), VS Code lists files under the /var/folders/... path.

Selecting one of the files under /var/folders/ usually yields "The editor could not be opened because the file was not found.".

I'm pretty sure these are temporary files used by Git. The files under var/folders/ appear as "recently opened" when I use git history features; comparing the file with previous versions of itself.

Is there a way to set VS Code so that only files in the current working directory show up?

Answer 1

There used to be a bug in VSCode that causes /var/folders files can't be reliably excluded from search neither from search.exclude nor files.exclude.

I collaborated with the VSCode team to fix this issue, since VSCode v1.88, use the following setting to exclude these files:

{
  "search.exclude": {
    // exclude from global search and quick open
    "**/var/folders/**": true
    // exclude ONLY from global search
    // "**/var/folders": true
  }
}