Codex app - handling of untracked files

Resolved 💬 4 comments Opened Feb 6, 2026 by kingtistel Closed Mar 20, 2026

💡 Likely answer: A maintainer (etraut-openai, contributor) responded on this thread — see the highlighted reply below.

What version of the Codex App are you using (From “About Codex” dialog)?

Version 260205.1301 (554)

What subscription do you have?

Business

What issue are you seeing?

My project has thousands of untracked files.
Once Codex made changes (~20 files) I go to the diff panel -- but it's hard to unusable:

The tree panel lists thousands of files,
The Diff panel shows a message up top: "Large diff detected — showing one file at a time."
In the end I have to switch back to VS Code to comfortably review the changes.

Please add a button to hide untracked files, or make it a selection (like vs code's git.untrackedChanges): mixed, separate, hidden

What steps can reproduce the bug?

In your existing repo create 2,000 untracked files,
Have Codex touch 2 files,
Access the Diff panel

What is the expected behavior?

The Diff panel should allow seeing just the changes made by Codex

Additional information

_No response_

View original on GitHub ↗

4 Comments

etraut-openai contributor · 6 months ago

Would it work for you to use a .gitignore file? That's the typical way to tell tools to ignore untracked files that you don't intend to check in.

kingtistel · 6 months ago

Using a .gitignore file is simply not my modus operandi. I benefit from — and am used to — VS Code’s way of working. Even git status groups untracked files separately; that seems to be the established way of doing things.

Get Outlook for Android<https://aka.ms/AAb9ysg>
________________________________
From: Eric Traut @.*>
Sent: Friday, February 6, 2026 2:46:53 AM
To: openai/codex @.*>
Cc: Opher Shachar (oshachar) @.>; Author @.>
Subject: Re: [openai/codex] Codex app - handling of untracked files (Issue #10829)

[https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/223546144?s=20&v=4]etraut-openai left a comment (openai/codex#10829)<https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/10829#issuecomment-3857168544>

Would it work for you to use a .gitignore file? That's the typical way to tell tools to ignore untracked files that you don't intend to check in.

—
Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub<https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/10829#issuecomment-3857168544>, or unsubscribe<https://github.com/notifications/unsubscribe-auth/A7YQRMEBI6CJLRMZUZ7C2LD4KPP73AVCNFSM6AAAAACUFHH7Y2VHI2DSMVQWIX3LMV43OSLTON2WKQ3PNVWWK3TUHMZTQNJXGE3DQNJUGQ>.
You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: @.***>

etraut-openai contributor · 5 months ago

This feature request hasn't received enough upvotes, so closing.

nomasprime · 3 months ago

This is definitely a bug: I've got only 13 unstaged files; the same "too large" message; and can only see one file diff so can't actually review/progress with Codex.

There are now multiple open issues relating to this issue.

UPDATE: My issue was a massive generated type definitions file, so maybe limits are acceptable. I'll raise a separate issue if it persists.