From 740c82cfa1002f9031a69da08e4202bd90019fa6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Michael Brooks <mbrooks@slack-corp.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2026 15:03:52 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] refactor: remove unused .slackignore support and dependencies

---
 cmd/root.go                    |  4 ---
 go.mod                         |  1 -
 go.sum                         |  2 --
 internal/config/slackignore.go | 45 ----------------------------------
 4 files changed, 52 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 internal/config/slackignore.go

diff --git a/cmd/root.go b/cmd/root.go
index 0bcf5b3d..2bc65e55 100644
--- a/cmd/root.go
+++ b/cmd/root.go
@@ -42,7 +42,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/slackapi/slack-cli/cmd/upgrade"
 	versioncmd "github.com/slackapi/slack-cli/cmd/version"
 	"github.com/slackapi/slack-cli/internal/cmdutil"
-	"github.com/slackapi/slack-cli/internal/config"
 	"github.com/slackapi/slack-cli/internal/iostreams"
 	"github.com/slackapi/slack-cli/internal/pkg/version"
 	"github.com/slackapi/slack-cli/internal/shared"
@@ -316,9 +315,6 @@ func InitConfig(ctx context.Context, clients *shared.ClientFactory, rootCmd *cob
 		clients.Config.RuntimeVersion = clients.Runtime.Version()
 	}
 
-	// Initialize .slackignore contents
-	config.InitSlackIgnore()
-
 	// Init debug log file with CLI Version, OS, SessionID, TraceID, SystemID, ProjectID, etc
 	return clients.IO.InitLogFile(ctx)
 }
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index 8cba4741..66981362 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -18,7 +18,6 @@ require (
 	github.com/pkg/browser v0.0.0-20240102092130-5ac0b6a4141c
 	github.com/pkg/errors v0.9.1
 	github.com/radovskyb/watcher v1.0.7
-	github.com/sabhiram/go-gitignore v0.0.0-20210923224102-525f6e181f06
 	github.com/spf13/afero v1.15.0
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.10.2
 	github.com/stretchr/testify v1.11.1
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index 32bcb30d..579cdd60 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -128,8 +128,6 @@ github.com/radovskyb/watcher v1.0.7/go.mod h1:78okwvY5wPdzcb1UYnip1pvrZNIVEIh/Cm
 github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.14.1 h1:UQB4HGPB6osV0SQTLymcB4TgvyWu6ZyliaW0tI/otEQ=
 github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.14.1/go.mod h1:MaRKkUm5W0goXpeCfT7UZI6fk/L7L7so1lCWt35ZSgc=
 github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0/go.mod h1:+Rmxgy9KzJVeS9/2gXHxylqXiyQDYRxCVz55jmeOWTM=
-github.com/sabhiram/go-gitignore v0.0.0-20210923224102-525f6e181f06 h1:OkMGxebDjyw0ULyrTYWeN0UNCCkmCWfjPnIA2W6oviI=
-github.com/sabhiram/go-gitignore v0.0.0-20210923224102-525f6e181f06/go.mod h1:+ePHsJ1keEjQtpvf9HHw0f4ZeJ0TLRsxhunSI2hYJSs=
 github.com/sergi/go-diff v1.4.0 h1:n/SP9D5ad1fORl+llWyN+D6qoUETXNZARKjyY2/KVCw=
 github.com/sergi/go-diff v1.4.0/go.mod h1:A0bzQcvG0E7Rwjx0REVgAGH58e96+X0MeOfepqsbeW4=
 github.com/sirupsen/logrus v1.7.0/go.mod h1:yWOB1SBYBC5VeMP7gHvWumXLIWorT60ONWic61uBYv0=
diff --git a/internal/config/slackignore.go b/internal/config/slackignore.go
deleted file mode 100644
index b5627ff3..00000000
--- a/internal/config/slackignore.go
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,45 +0,0 @@
-// Copyright 2022-2025 Salesforce, Inc.
-//
-// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
-// you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
-// You may obtain a copy of the License at
-//
-//     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
-//
-// Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
-// distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
-// WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
-// See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
-// limitations under the License.
-
-package config
-
-import (
-	"os"
-	"path/filepath"
-
-	gogitignore "github.com/sabhiram/go-gitignore"
-)
-
-const SlackIgnoreFileName = ".slackignore"
-
-var SlackIgnore *gogitignore.GitIgnore
-
-// InitSlackIgnore: Initialize contents (file names, directories etc) of the .slackignore file.
-// If an error occurs, it initializes as an empty .slackignore file
-func InitSlackIgnore() {
-	var wd, err = os.Getwd()
-	if err != nil {
-		SlackIgnore = &gogitignore.GitIgnore{}
-		return
-	}
-
-	var slackignore = filepath.Join(wd, SlackIgnoreFileName)
-	object, err := gogitignore.CompileIgnoreFile(slackignore)
-	if err != nil {
-		SlackIgnore = &gogitignore.GitIgnore{}
-		return
-	}
-
-	SlackIgnore = object
-}