From 047bc44032d5eb33defe4f5a2e9c6da6765602e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Eric Rahm <erahm@google.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2025 17:08:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] refactor(core): Clean up exclude description (#11678)

Co-authored-by: Jacob Richman <jacob314@gmail.com>
---
 .../core/src/services/fileDiscoveryService.ts |  7 ------
 packages/core/src/tools/read-many-files.ts    | 23 +++----------------
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 27 deletions(-)

diff --git a/packages/core/src/services/fileDiscoveryService.ts b/packages/core/src/services/fileDiscoveryService.ts
index dbec5f1ffa..981e81127e 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/services/fileDiscoveryService.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/services/fileDiscoveryService.ts
@@ -115,11 +115,4 @@ export class FileDiscoveryService {
     }
     return false;
   }
-
-  /**
-   * Returns loaded patterns from .geminiignore
-   */
-  getGeminiIgnorePatterns(): string[] {
-    return this.geminiIgnoreFilter?.getPatterns() ?? [];
-  }
 }
diff --git a/packages/core/src/tools/read-many-files.ts b/packages/core/src/tools/read-many-files.ts
index 5681647cb5..a437235b83 100644
--- a/packages/core/src/tools/read-many-files.ts
+++ b/packages/core/src/tools/read-many-files.ts
@@ -133,19 +133,12 @@ ${this.config.getTargetDir()}
     // Determine the final list of exclusion patterns exactly as in execute method
     const paramExcludes = this.params.exclude || [];
     const paramUseDefaultExcludes = this.params.useDefaultExcludes !== false;
-    const geminiIgnorePatterns = this.config
-      .getFileService()
-      .getGeminiIgnorePatterns();
     const finalExclusionPatternsForDescription: string[] =
       paramUseDefaultExcludes
-        ? [
-            ...getDefaultExcludes(this.config),
-            ...paramExcludes,
-            ...geminiIgnorePatterns,
-          ]
-        : [...paramExcludes, ...geminiIgnorePatterns];
+        ? [...getDefaultExcludes(this.config), ...paramExcludes]
+        : [...paramExcludes];
 
-    let excludeDesc = `Excluding: ${
+    const excludeDesc = `Excluding: ${
       finalExclusionPatternsForDescription.length > 0
         ? `patterns like 
 ${finalExclusionPatternsForDescription
@@ -156,16 +149,6 @@ ${finalExclusionPatternsForDescription
         : 'none specified'
     }`;
 
-    // Add a note if .geminiignore patterns contributed to the final list of exclusions
-    if (geminiIgnorePatterns.length > 0) {
-      const geminiPatternsInEffect = geminiIgnorePatterns.filter((p) =>
-        finalExclusionPatternsForDescription.includes(p),
-      ).length;
-      if (geminiPatternsInEffect > 0) {
-        excludeDesc += ` (includes ${geminiPatternsInEffect} from .geminiignore)`;
-      }
-    }
-
     return `Will attempt to read and concatenate files ${pathDesc}. ${excludeDesc}. File encoding: ${DEFAULT_ENCODING}. Separator: "${DEFAULT_OUTPUT_SEPARATOR_FORMAT.replace(
       '{filePath}',
       'path/to/file.ext',