How to Show the Hidden .git Folder in VSCode IDE Simple Trick
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Jul 2, 2025
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Uh hello guys, welcome to this video. So
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in this video, I'll show you how to uh
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display or how to show the doggit folder
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which by default doesn't show inside VS
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code. It is completely hidden. So let me
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show you actually what I meant. If I
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just say get init, so it will
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reinitialize existing git repository. So
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inside this path agit folder has been
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created. And if I try to create this git
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folder, it actually tells me that folder
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already exist at this location. But the
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folder is not showing to me. You can see
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it is completely hidden. So now to show
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that folder, it's very easy. You go to
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the settings
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and right here in the search settings
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just search for this excludes.
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Just search for this in the search bar
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and you will actually seekit files are
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disabled or they are not shown. They're
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hidden. So simply you can remove this
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from here. As soon as you remove this
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you will see the dotgit folder will
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instantly show right here. And now you
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can see all these things which are
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contained inside this dotkit folder. The
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second way by which you can also do the
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same thing by going to the user setting
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file and automatically adding this
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files.exclude
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and then putting it to false. You can
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even unhide it. Toggle this and now
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again it is again hidden.
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You can remove this setting.
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So you can remove this folder now
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again reinitialize it
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and now you can see your dotgit folder
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is showing once again. So
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it's very easy. Now you can see that
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you go to the settings
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just
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search for this option which is excludes
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and here you actually
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ignored it. So in this easy way
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you can do this very easily. X
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files do.exclude.
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So you can see that. So this is a way by
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which you can toggle the visibility.
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