title: Visual Studio Code not honoring .gitignore in git tab
body: <p>I've appropriately configured a .gitignore file and put it in the base directory of my project, but when I go to the git tab of Visual Studio Code it does not ignore the folder that I'm trying to ignore and therefore is suggesting that there are changes for 4000+ files that I don't care about (the folder that I'm trying to ignore is a virtual environment for python).</p>
  
  <p>Has anyone else successfully gotten the git tab to ignore changes using the .gitignore file?</p>