2026-08-26 14:33:50
I feel a bit dumb for having discovered that so late, but #VSCode / #VSCodium do not use the .gitignore file to decide what inodes to watch for changes...
Working on a big #Rustlang project can be a nightmare (burning CPU, eating up all the RAM...), given that the target/ directory can end up using more than 100gb of disk space.
Remember to set your "files.watcherExclude" setting to avoid that problem:
```
{
"search.useIgnoreFiles": true,
"search.useGlobalIgnoreFiles": true,
"files.watcherExclude": {
"target/**": true,
"**/target/**": true
}
}
```