How to exclude folder from indexing but not from git? (IntelliJ IDEA, WebStorm)

Question

I have the case, that I need to exclude a folder in WebStorm from indexing but not from staging to git. It is a folder /dist/ with built files of the project which means i have duplicated lines of code.

Avoiding indexing on that folder means I have to remember every time I run the build and commit it to add the files manually. As I have a GitHub action that deploys the code to FTP on commit, the run fails because I have to delete all files prior to upload as Parcel (bundler) gives them random names on build.

How would I deal with that?

I haven't found a similar question, excluding the folder is the only way so far.

EDIT: this is what marking as excluded looks like(red means not staged, although silently add created files + external files are activated) Image of directories

Answer 1

File -> Settings -> Directories -> Use Exclude button