VS Code file explorer won't show certain files or directories in some projects

Question

I have what appears to be a weird problem. In some project folders when I open them in VS Code I don't see the entire directory tree in the file explorer, some folders and files are missing, and if I open some folders, content is empty, quite annoying. I have looked at Files: Excluded in the Settings and everything is default. If I open the folder through the File menu option I see the entire content of the directory alright. I am on win10 and the project is C#. Any ideas what might be wrong? Edit: Should mention I am using git. I have these extensions inststalled: .NET Core Test Explorer, C#, C# extensions, Debugger for Unity, Dotnet core commands, Dotnet Core Essentials, Git History, GitLens, Jira and Bitbucket, Prettier, Unity Code Snippets, Unity Snippets, YAML

Answer 1

In case somebody else runs into the same issue. Turns out not all excluded files show up in the Settings. The file under .vscode called settings.json likely contains a lot longer list, in my case all the files types and folders I was missing in my view was on that hidden list.

Answer 2

In my case, it was exclude .gitignore setting, that was set to true. Here's the setting's ID: explorer.excludeGitIgnore.