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It would nice if you could somehow deprioritize folders so that the files within them don't show up in the top N results in Spotlight, because yeah it's probably not useful for it to present source files from that one sprawling project I forked and tinkered with a couple years ago.

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When I’m done with a project, I’ve taken to packing up these kinds of files into a disk image. That way, I can access them if I need to, but they don’t show up in search. There’s a risk that the image gets corrupted or isn’t readable on some future OS, but since these aren’t mission critical files, I’m not too worried about that.

You can remove folders from spotlight indexing. I do it for all the source code folders.

I’ve also built a small tool to check whether some git repo is in sync with upstream, so it could be deleted: https://gitlab.com/leipert-projects/git-recon

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