Can I make vim respect my .gitignore files?

Question

I was wondering if there is a way to get vim to read .gitignore files and use them to determine options not to present when auto-completing filenames.

For example, work

Answer 1

I wrote a plugin for this: https://github.com/octref/RootIgnore

It can add .gitignore patterns to your wildignore automatically.
Some handy features:

• When you are in a sub directory, like this:

my_proj/  
   .gitignore  
   .git/
   sub/

If you cd into sub, and open Vim there, the plugin goes recursively up to find the .gitignore and add it to wildignore.

• You can easily add ~/.gitignore rules by let g:RootIgnoreUseHome = 1.