Using .gitignore, is there a way to ignore a directory if it contains a certain file (or directory)?
This would be something like look-ahead assertions, though my use case is a little different: I want to ignore Mercurial repos in my project, to keep from accidentally committing them as part of the project. That is, I want to ignore all directories containing .hg, not just .hg itself.
I can work around this using the answer from this question, adding each directory name to .gitignore, but I'd like to make it more general if I can.
There is no way to do it beside adding all of them to your .gitignore file.
What you can do it to write a scipt which append all the desired paths to your .gitignore.
The content of .gitignore is alist of paths so git can be configured based upon content.
Each line in a gitignore file specifies a pattern
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I'm editing a repository that doesn't use Prettier, but my editor (Emacs) loads prettier-js-mode based on file extension. So when saving a file I get a bunch of whitespace changes that I can't commit as it would polute the upstream repository.
My idea so far is to add a local .prettierrc file that disables Prettier, then add it to my .git/config/exclude file so upstream doesn't have to know about it.
But how do I craft such a file?
In my case I'd like to have a file in the project's root directory that would disable Prettier for the whole project, but I can also see how others might wish for a way to do the same thing for a subdirectory.
What about adding the .prettierignore with a * in it?
prettier-js-mode should have a config to only enable itself when it finds prettier config in the root or in package.json. The same as vscode and atom plugins do. If it doesn't have this feature it would be nice to open an issue or a PR.
The accepted answer is kinda hacky, but sure it will work too.
I'm using Xcode (with C++) and my project layout (in the file system, not in Xcode) looks like this:
SubfolderA
-file_A_1, file_A_2
SubfolderB
-file_B_1, file_B_2
Right now I've set up this structure in Xcode via groups. And so, when I want to include file_A_2 in file_B_1, I write #include "file_A_2" in file_B_1.
Is there some way to make an inclusion look like #include "/SubfolderA/file_A_2", so that I can easily see to what directory/subfolder an included file belongs?
One way to see what's going on is to look at the Build Log and expand the line for compiling sourcefile.m. Look at the -I options being passed to the compiler.
If it's not to your liking you can add the source tree in the Build Settings > Header Search Paths to include $(ProjectDir)/srcroot and make it recursive, which saves you from adding each sub-folder individually.
In my experience this has never been necessary, however, as far as I can remember.
As far as the Xcode folders are concerned, if the top-level source folder is added then all sub-folders are automatically added when you add them to the filesystem, saving the hassle of keeping them in sync. You might need to add the top-level folder under the Source Files group for this to work, however.
Surprisingly, in Xcode's Build Settings I've added to User Header Search Paths non-recursive path to my project. This solved my problem.
I ended up here when I was having an issue with XCode while trying to include a header in a group by doing
#include "MyGroup/MyHeader.h"
Turns out the project structure and the file system weren't in sync, so I just had to remove my group from the project, put it in the correct place in Finder, then drag and drop it back into the project in the correct place and it worked for me.
I'm not sure if this is necessary or not, but I also have already set up my app's working directory because I am doing some game programming and need to be able to load in .png and make textures.
Is there a way to limit the filetypes tracked by git by specifying a set of acceptable file types in .gitignore?
I want to be able to limit the filetypes commited to my compiled directory. I understand that the parser is not regex but I'd like something like this.
!src/(*.js|*.html|*.css)
You can just do
src/*
!src/*.js
!src/*.css
!src/*.html
Been fighting with Mercurial's .hgignore for a while under Windows.
I have a folder named Upload which is currently empty. I do want it tracked so I added a .empty file in it which work fine. I want this so that new developers doing an hg clone get the Upload document required for the application.
Thing is I never want the folder to be populated with anything on the source control itself (test uploads from a development machine).
Example:
If I add Public/image.jpg it wouldn't be tracked.
Additionally I would like it for sub directory to be tracked. So if developer adds
Upload/users/.empty I would like this to be tracked.
Is this possible with regex voodoo?
In mercurial (and unlike in svn and cvs) adding a file overrides the .hgignore file, so you can put this in your .hgignore:
^Uploads/.*
and your Upload/.empty that you added will still be created on update and thus they'll get the directory.
Getting it to ignore files in upload but not not ignore files in subdirectories in Upload could be done with:
^Uploads/[^/]*$
which says: ignore anything that Starts with Uploads and has no further slashes in it.
Really though, you should be creating Uploads with your build/install/configure script when possible, not with the clone/update.
Try putting
Uploads/(?!.empty)
in .hgignore in the root of the repository
Try
^Uploads\b.*/(?!\.empty)[^/]+$
This should match any path starting with Uploads where the text after the last slash (=filename) is anything but .empty.
I have a django project that I have been working on as a solo developer, and have been using TortoiseSVN to keep the code managed in a repository on a work server. I work on this on a local installation of django etc.
There is now a second person who will be working on this project, and the possibility of working on some other PCs.
Now, there should, for the time being, only be one development version (branch?) of this project, but the configuration file (settings.py) will need to be different on each computer that is being used. I want to create one local version of this file on each PC which should not need to be changed again.
How can I set the repository (preferably within TortoiseSVN) to exclude this one file? E.g. the repository should not include settings.py. When a checkout occurs, it should update all files in the local folder but not change/remove the local copy of settings.py. When a commit occurs, settings.py should be ignored and not uploaded.
At the moment settings.py is overwritten/updated as per any other file in the project folder/repository.
Any nudges in the right direction would be useful - I'm new to SVN generally and would like to know if this is something that's going to need detailed understanding of branching or if there is a simpler way.
Thanks
In TortoiseSVN, when you try to commit your files, in the file list dialog, right click the file and look for the Ignore option. You can ignore by complete filename or extension.
If the file is already in the repository, and you want to remove it from there and ignore it, you can simply right-click the file and in the TortoiseSVN menu look for the 'Delete and add to ignore list' option.
You'll be looking for the svn:ignore property, which tells subversion to not version files matching a pattern or patterns you specify.
There's some guidance on using it with TortoiseSVN at:
http://arcware.net/tortoisesvn-global-ignore-pattern-vs-svn-ignore/
These should help:
I have a file in my project that every developer must change, but I don't want those local mods to ever be committed. How can I make 'svn commit' ignore the file?
Excluding Items from the Commit List
The typical solution is to do what bgever said and ignore the settings file itself, and then commit a file with example values, something like settings.py.example. That file should only be updated when you add or remove settings. When deploying, you'd copy that to settings.py and edit the values.