How to configure 'find' to ignore specific directories

Question

Is it possible to permanently exclude certain folders from 'find' command?

For example, if I never want to 'find' inside .git directories, can I put something into the vifmrc to ignore them (even if current filter shows dotfiles)?

Answer 1

You can adjust 'findprg' option like this:

set findprg='find %s %a -print , -type d \( ! -readable -o ! -executable -o -path "*/.git" \) -prune'

Compared to default value only -o -path "*/.git" is added, which makes find do -prune for paths that match that pattern (the subtree is skipped entirely without descending into it).

See man find for details about the syntax.