Disable git integration for specific paths (i.e. `$HOME`)?

[alex-courtis]

Discussed in #1834

^{Originally posted by NiklasKappel December 18, 2022}
My $HOME is a git repository that manages my dotfiles. Necessarily, that repository contains a huge number of mostly untracked files. This causes performance issues with nvim-tree. If I run nvim from my home directory, there is a significant delay when I run nvim-tree itself or open any file after that. The delay goes away if I disable the nvim-tree git integration entirely or if I start nvim in a different, smaller git repo.

Is there a way to disable the nvim-tree git integration for a specific path such as /home/asdf/, but keep the feature enabled for smaller, regular repos?

[alex-courtis]

This will be very useful, thanks for bringing this up @NiklasKappel

It could be done for relative and absolute paths, something like:

git = {
  disable_dirs = {
    "/home/asdf",
    "big-project",
  }
}