Ignore folders in .couchappignore

Question

My CouchApp has the following folder structur, where files inside the app folder are compiled into the _attachments folder:

my_couchapp
├── _attachments/
│   ├── app.js
│   ├── app-tests.js
│   └── index.html
├── app/
│   └── app.js
├── Assetfile
└── views/

I want to exclude the file Assetfile, _attachments/app-tests.js and the folder app.

My current .couchappignore looks like this:

[
  "app",
  "Assetfile",
  "_attachments/app-tests.js"
]

But this doesn't seem to work. All files beginning with app inside the _attachments folder are not pushed.

How do I define folders and specific files to be excluded when the CouchApp is pushed via couchapp push?

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 04 '12 at 18:56

3

After a little more experimentation I found a way: the app folder can be excluded by specifying app$, so the final .couchappignore now looks like this:

[
  "app$",
  "Assetfile",
  "app-tests.js"
]

answered Jul 04 '12 at 18:56

pangratz

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I was struggling with this as well. Thanks for you post it seems to be a major contribution to the documentation in the area. It seems that it is a regex (as stated in docs), of one part of the file name. That is a bit between the `/`s or at the end. It seem you can to say the directory called `abc` that is at the root of the directory or all files ending `def' in directory `ghi`. You can improve your answer by putting a `^` in front and a `$` at the end, this should be done if the regex does not start/end with `.*` – ctrl-alt-delor Feb 03 '14 at 21:55

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 16 '14 at 22:38

In case you arrived here looking for a way to ignore subfolders, you are just like me. Here's my problem:

my-couchapp/
├── node_modules/
│   ├── react.js
│   ├── url/
│   ├── browserify/
│   └── coffee-script/
├── app/
│   └── app.js
└── views/

I wanted to include node_modules/react.js and node_modules/url/ (and all subfolders), but didn't want to include node_modules/browserify/ and node_modules/coffeescript.

I was trying

[
  "node_modules/browserify$",
  "node_modules/coffee-script$"
]

but it wasn't working.

[
  "node_modules\/browserify",
  "node_modules\/coffee-script"
]

also didn't work.

The only thing that worked was

[
  "browserify",
  "coffee-script"
]

I don't know why.

Currently, couchapp only matches each individual path component at a time. So your workaround (only specifying the folder names) is correct, even though (unfortunately) it could match other things too. — natevw, Oct 13 '17 at 21:57

Ignore folders in .couchappignore

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