Django collectstatic command for specific file or folder

Question

when I run this code

python manage.py collectstatic --clear --noinput

it remove all static files and folders in staticroot and colletc all files and folders again. But I want to collect just a specific file or a specific folder. How can i do that?

Answer 1

collectstatic doesn't support whitelists, all it supports is blacklists (ignoring file patterns), so you will have to list everything you don't want to be synced:

python manage.py collectstatic -i folder1 -i *.jpeg