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Expand Up @@ -148,6 +148,14 @@ can reuse those rules to exclude files and directories from the results with the
// excludes files/directories matching the .gitignore patterns
$finder->ignoreVCSIgnored(true);

Rules from higher levels will be overridden by those in lower levels.

.. note::

Only ``.gitignore`` files from search directories and their descendants are
read. Files from parent directories are ignored. To be consistent with Git
behavior, you should explicitly search from the Git repository root.

.. versionadded:: 5.4

``.gitignore`` files recursive support was introduced in Symfony 5.4.
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