ipfs add ignore, .ipfsignore

[crackcomm]

I would love to be able to run ipfs add -w -r . but ignoring node_modules or target directory, or any other directory.
Something like .ipfsignore may be an overkill but something like this is what I am looking for.

[whyrusleeping]

Yeah, i'd like to have this too. I implemented it semi-manually for gx https://github.com/whyrusleeping/gx/blob/master/gxutil/publish.go

[AlbertoElias]

Is there a way to ignore files yet?

[Stebalien]

This feature was, unfortunately, blocked on one PR that was blocked on another (large) PR. Path forward:

• Fix: Add strings option go-ipfs-cmdkit#5
• Revive: Add option to ignore files when adding. #4013

Unfortunately, I'm not sure anyone will have time to work on this at the moment unless @crackcomm has some free time and feels like reviving their PRs.

[kjzz]

Hey @whyrusleeping @Stebalien , Has this issue been finished?And it has aleady been blocked for one year.
If not,i am willing to do this.

[marcusnewton]

+1 good idea

[dholms]

Any movement on this? It'd be very useful for us (specifically an --ignore or --exclude flag).
Happy to contribute as well, but want to check the status first since it seems like PRs addressing this (#4013) never got unblocked

[Stebalien]

@dholms no progress but not blocked, as far as I know. The next step is ipfs/go-ipfs-cmdkit#5. There are two PRs (see the bottom of that issue) trying to fix that but they're kind of hacky. If you'd like to rebase/clean them up, I can take a look at them.

Note: we have quite a few high-priority issues in flight at the moment so reviews may take a while.

[bmann]

@Stebalien we're not using golang in-house at the moment, we can see if we can bounty it.

[hsanjuan]

Heads up this issue has been picked up by @corntoole. Any feedback and review help on issues linked above from interested parties is more than welcome!

[Stebalien]

Ignore file support has now been merged. You can pass:

• --ignore=file to skip a file/directory.
• --ignore-rules-path=.someignorefile to apply all ignore rules specified by the file.

In the future, we should consider shorter flags (maybe a -g flag to ignore files specified by .gitignore, etc.) but this is a good, mvp.