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How to exclude some files from the search⚑

If anyone else comes here in the future and have the following setup

• Using fd as default command: export FZF_DEFAULT_COMMAND='fd --type file --hidden --follow'
• Using :Rg to grep in files

And want to exclude a specific path in a git project say path/to/exclude (but that should not be included in .gitignore) from both fd and rg as used by fzf.vim, then the easiest way I found to solve to create ignore files for the respective tool then ignore this file in the local git clone (as they are only used by me)

cd git_proj/
echo "path/to/exclude" > .rgignore
echo "path/to/exclude" > .fdignore
printf ".rgignore\n.fdignore" >> .git/info/exclude