readme.md and Documents~ directory in root of Unity project are not indexed

Created August 07, 2023 12:07

Hi,

This has been bugging me for a long time (and spans multiple Rider versions), the readme.md file and the Documents~ directory located in the root of my Unity project are not being indexed.

The only way I can get them to index is to right-click the files in the file explorer panel and to force them to index. But that is not a permanent solution as it will often revert back to being non-indexed.
Or to edit files I have to manually open them from the file explorer panel.

How do I get them to index automatically so I can use the default search functionality to view or edit the content of these files?

Thanks in advance.

2 comments

Ivan Skorikov

Created August 11, 2023 14:15

Hello,

Currently for Unity solutions only Assets folder is indexed by default. You can use Directory.Build.props file in the project root to include custom files and folders into an assembly - that way they will be indexed, albeit still not visible in the Unity view of the Explorer window, only in the Solution view. An example of the props file:

<Project>
    <ItemGroup Condition="$(AssemblyName) == 'Assembly-CSharp'">
        <Content Include="README.md"/>
        <Content Include="Documents~\**"/>
    </ItemGroup>
</Project>

And thank you for the feedback, we really appreciate it. I have passed it on to the relevant team and we will take it into account when planning changes for the upcoming releases.

Jakkovanhunen

Created August 18, 2023 07:42

Thank you for the clear explanation! I was unaware you could use a Directory.Build.props file for this. Works for me.

Cheers

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