automatically honor .gitignore for cases of git repos?

[kwlzn]

to improve performance when quick-opening on top of git repos, it'd be useful if jupyterlab-quickopen could automatically respect the .gitignore files on the filesystem (via either git ls-files or other mechanism).

e.g. this would be a really fast way to get a recursive directory listing if you were inside a git repo:

git ls-tree -r --name-only HEAD

[parente]

Happy to review a pull request if you'd like to implement support and the implementation works when the user doesn't have git installed or has multiple git repositories cloned under the notebook root directory.

[kwlzn]

sounds good, I'll try to circle back to implement this if/when able.