⚠ Repository snapshot encountered large untracked directories: webroot/attachments (274 files). This can slow Codex; consider adding these paths to .gitignore or disabling undo in your config.

Resolved 💬 10 comments Opened Nov 21, 2025 by KustomKode Closed Dec 2, 2025

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

What version of Codex is running?

codex-cli 0.61.0

What subscription do you have?

Pro

Which model were you using?

gpt-5.1-codex-max

What platform is your computer?

Darwin 21.6.0 x86_64 i386

What issue are you seeing?

This directory is already in my .gitignore, and it is also in .codexignore.

My .codexignore file:

# Exclude large media from Codex snapshots/undo (multiple patterns to cover both rooted and nested) /webroot/attachments/** webroot/attachments/** /webroot/video/** webroot/video/** /uploads/** uploads/**

My .gitignore file:

/config/app_local.php /config/.env /logs/* /tmp/* /vendor/* .DS_Store .DS_Store? ._* .Spotlight-V100 .Trashes Icon ehthumbs.db Thumbs.db .directory .phpunit.cache tests.sqlite *~ *.swp *.swo *.sublime-* *.stTheme.cache *.tmlanguage.cache *.tmPreferences.cache .settings/* .idea/* nbproject/* .vscode .nova .sass-cache/ /node_modules/* yarn-debug.log yarn-error.log /resources/git-commands.txt /resources/DEPLOYMENT.md !.cpanel.yml .env /webroot/attachments/* !/webroot/attachments/.gitignore !/webroot/attachments/.gitkeep /webroot/video/* !/webroot/video/.gitignore !/webroot/video/.gitkeep /uploads/* !/uploads/.gitignore !/uploads/.gitkeep

What steps can reproduce the bug?

Just start a new session and I get the warning for every single prompt the entire session.

What is the expected behavior?

Since it is in the .gitignore file, it should be ignored.

Additional information

_No response_

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10 Comments

JurjenRoels · 8 months ago

I have the same message with files that are part of .gitignore and should be ignored.

robations · 8 months ago

I have this message with files that are ignored through a .gitignore in a subdirectory. Is the nesting an issue or perhaps double asterisk patterns?

Example:

# package/foo/.gitignore
/cache/**

Repository snapshot encountered large untracked directories: packages/foo/cache (8624 files), ...

Another possibility is the misinterpretation of /cache as an absolute path, rather than based from the current dir?

piotr-kubiak · 8 months ago

Getting similar error:
Repository snapshot encountered large untracked directories: foo (123 files). This can slow Codex; consider adding these paths to .gitignore or disabling undo in your config.
However I have a .gitignore file inside foo/:

# foo/.gitignore
*

Yafei-Liu99 · 8 months ago

I have the same issue

mary-ext · 8 months ago

repro steps from #7133

# Create a new repository
mkdir test-repo/
cd test-repo/
git init

# Create a test/ directory containing .gitignore and a dozens/ directory containing dozens of files
mkdir -p test/dozens/
echo "dozens/*.txt" > test/.gitignore
for i in {1..16384}; do touch test/dozens/file_$i.txt; done

# Confirm that Git ignores the files in dozens
git status --short --untracked-files=all

# now open Codex
codex

it seems to be happening specifically because of the wildcard, not that it starts with a leading path

✅ dozens
✅ dozens/
✅ /dozens
✅ /dozens/
❌ dozens/*.txt

GalahadXVI · 7 months ago

Same issue here for storage/framework/views.

We have a .gitignore file within the folder itself containing only

*
!.gitignore

lulu-sk · 7 months ago

我也遇到了同样的问题。

miraclebakelaser contributor · 7 months ago

clearing the git cache solved this issue for me.

git rm -r --cached .
git add .

wbdb · 7 months ago

I can confirm the problem (WSL / current Codex version 0.63.0). Even with a clean index.

git rm -r --cached . && git add . && git commit -m "Reapply .gitignore and clean index"

.gitignore in root:
/test123/generated/*.html
/wp-includes/*

=> Nevertheless, this message:

⚠ Repository snapshot encountered large untracked directories: test123/generated/ (454 files), wp- includes (244 files). This can slow Codex; consider adding these paths to .gitignore or disabling undo in your config.

wbdb · 7 months ago

@lionel-oai https://github.com/openai/codex/blob/4d4778ec1cbc93ff2b992afc4a4214bbffa26c2a/codex-rs/utils/git/src/ghost_commits.rs#L33 It probably makes sense to also include __pycache__ and vendor in DEFAULT_IGNORED_DIR_NAMES.

Thank you for the solution and have a wonderful pre-Christmas season!