When current work in progress branch is selected, GitKraken shows two types of files: “Unstaged Files” and “Staged Files”. Quite often there is a huge amount of files listed under “Unstaged”, even only a few are really under source control; files are mostly untracked.
Is it possible to filter out the “untracked” files, and show only tracked (but modified) ones?
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Answer
Gitkraken’s unstaged files area doesn’t have a way to turn off untracked files completely, but it will respect your .gitignore. Create a file called .gitignore at the root of your repo, and add the names of files or folders you know you don’t want to track. https://git-scm.com/docs/gitignore
Generally, the way most people use git is to gitignore ephemeral files, build artifacts, and configuration files, and commit everything else in the repo. If you have a large number of untracked files, you should probably gitignore them, or if you have some reason not to gitignore them, you might want to rethink your git strategy.