From 2592fe0cfa363bc1d0de505a7ab9881b477eb32c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Travis Abendshien <46939827+CyanVoxel@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2026 02:56:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] fix: have ripgrep ignore .gitignore files it finds

---
 src/tagstudio/core/library/scanners.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/src/tagstudio/core/library/scanners.py b/src/tagstudio/core/library/scanners.py
index 2ab467df..bd761829 100644
--- a/src/tagstudio/core/library/scanners.py
+++ b/src/tagstudio/core/library/scanners.py
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ def _scan_with_ripgrep(scan_dir: Path, ignore_patterns: list[str]) -> Iterator[P
                 "--files",
                 "--follow",
                 "--hidden",
+                "--no-ignore",  # Ignore *literal* .gitignore files in paths
                 "--ignore-file",
                 str(compiled_ignore_path),
             ],