<p dir="auto">The setting is shown below. This is the great place where I put stuff like</p>
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<p dir="auto">.DS_Store<br>
*~<br>
*.swp</p>
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<p dir="auto">If I switch off the Exclude VCS Ignored Paths option in my preferences, paths and files in my .gitignore file are still excluded from the tree view. I don't want that.</p>