Helm-projectile-ag failed when .gitignore exlude root project and add exceptions

[prestancedesign]

Description :octocat:

Hi everybody !

It's not specially a only Spacemacs question but I'm sure someone here can give me a simple answer to my issue. All search with spacemacs/helm-project-smart-do-search doesn't work in root directory for one of my project because the web agency set up .gitignore to ignore everything in root with /* and after add exceptions like !classes/, !config, etc. I know, I can create .projectile file and "unignore" directory like !controllers, etc but for project root !/*, it doesn't work. An idea ? Thx

Reproduction guide :beetle:

• Start Emacs A git repo with /* in .gitignore file and SPC / or SPC * Like :

  # Ignore everything in the root except modules, front-end files, themes and override.
  /*
  #!img
  !config/
  !controllers/
  !themes/
  !gulpfile.js
  !package.json
  !.gitignore

  Observed behaviour: :eyes: :broken_heart: No result of searching, nothing happen in helm. Expected behaviour: :heart: :smile: Ag|grep|ack output in helm.

System Info :computer:

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 24.5.1
• Spacemacs: 0.200.7
• Spacemacs branch: master (rev. c2774bc)
• Graphic display: t
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

  (javascript html php python helm auto-completion gtags chrome search-engine emacs-lisp git gnus markdown
          (org :variables org-enable-bootstrap-support t org-enable-github-support t org-enable-reveal-js-support t)
          (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom)
          syntax-checking version-control)

[xiongtx]

What is the behavior with projectile-ag, i.e. without Helm?

Call (helm-projectile-off) to turn off helm-projectile if necessary.

[prestancedesign]

Hi, I close this issue because it's directly a ag behavior. Whitelist files/paths in .gitignore with ! isn't supported for now like it's mentionned here : https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher/issues/168.

For now, I use the -U (--skip-vcs-ignores) parameter to search all files in project regardless gitignore.