Go to File causes error "spawn ENAMETOOLONG"

[doucette]

I created this issue to continue the discussion from #94718 which was automatically locked.

We took the suggestion of moving our exclusions from files.exclude into an .ignore file, and it worked great to fix the search issue, but I didn't notice at the time that .ignore doesn't filter File Explorer. Depending on the project, the exclude patterns that we use in .ignore can exclude well over a million files from the workspace, and it would be good to have a setting that allows us to do this without breaking search.

@roblourens asked in #94718 (comment) to write back if it didn't work for us. If files.exclude can't handle our hundreds of exclusions, then we would love to see a new setting to have ignore files considered anywhere that files.exclude is used, similar to search.useIgnoreFiles. That request relates to #38878 but would be for .ignore files as well.

[roblourens]

Something else I'd like to do is to write files.exclude patterns into a file and tell rg to use that, which would get around the issue with having too much on the command line, but let files.exclude work as it should. We would also have to find another .ignore file that the user is using, and merge those patterns into ours. But this would probably be a better solution. I am wrapped up in other issues right now and I'm not sure when I will get to this however.

[connor4312]

/duplicate #98514