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ignore
ignore
is a manager, filter and parser which implemented in pure JavaScript according to the .gitignore spec.
Pay attention that minimatch
does not work in the gitignore way. To filter filenames according to .gitignore file, I recommend this module.
Tested on
- Linux + Node:
0.8
-7.x
- Windows + Node:
0.10
-7.x
, node <0.10
is not tested due to the lack of support of appveyor.
Actually, ignore
does not rely on any versions of node specially.
Since 4.0.0
, ignore will no longer support node < 6
by default, to use in node < 6, require('ignore/legacy')
. For details, see CHANGELOG.
Table Of Main Contents
- Usage
Pathname
Conventions- Guide for 2.x -> 3.x
- Guide for 3.x -> 4.x
- See Also:
glob-gitignore
matches files using patterns and filters them according to gitignore rules.
Usage
import ignore from 'ignore'
const ig = ignore().add(['.abc/*', '!.abc/d/'])
Filter the given paths
const paths = [
'.abc/a.js', // filtered out
'.abc/d/e.js' // included
]
ig.filter(paths) // ['.abc/d/e.js']
ig.ignores('.abc/a.js') // true
As the filter function
paths.filter(ig.createFilter()); // ['.abc/d/e.js']
Win32 paths will be handled
ig.filter(['.abc\\a.js', '.abc\\d\\e.js'])
// if the code above runs on windows, the result will be
// ['.abc\\d\\e.js']
Why another ignore?
-
ignore
is a standalone module, and is much simpler so that it could easy work with other programs, unlike isaacs's fstream-ignore which must work with the modules of the fstream family. -
ignore
only contains utility methods to filter paths according to the specified ignore rules, soignore
never try to find out ignore rules by traversing directories or fetching from git configurations.ignore
don't cares about sub-modules of git projects.
-
Exactly according to gitignore man page, fixes some known matching issues of fstream-ignore, such as:
- '
/*.js
' should only match 'a.js
', but not 'abc/a.js
'. - '
**/foo
' should match 'foo
' anywhere. - Prevent re-including a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded.
- Handle trailing whitespaces:
'a '
(one space) should not match'a '
(two spaces).'a \ '
matches'a '
- All test cases are verified with the result of
git check-ignore
.
- '
Methods
.add(pattern: string | Ignore): this
.add(patterns: Array<string | Ignore>): this
- pattern
String | Ignore
An ignore pattern string, or theIgnore
instance - patterns
Array<String | Ignore>
Array of ignore patterns.
Adds a rule or several rules to the current manager.
Returns this
Notice that a line starting with '#'
(hash) is treated as a comment. Put a backslash ('\'
) in front of the first hash for patterns that begin with a hash, if you want to ignore a file with a hash at the beginning of the filename.
ignore().add('#abc').ignores('#abc') // false
ignore().add('\#abc').ignores('#abc') // true
pattern
could either be a line of ignore pattern or a string of multiple ignore patterns, which means we could just ignore().add()
the content of a ignore file:
ignore()
.add(fs.readFileSync(filenameOfGitignore).toString())
.filter(filenames)
pattern
could also be an ignore
instance, so that we could easily inherit the rules of another Ignore
instance.
.addIgnoreFile(path)
REMOVED in 3.x
for now.
To upgrade ignore@2.x
up to 3.x
, use
import fs from 'fs'
if (fs.existsSync(filename)) {
ignore().add(fs.readFileSync(filename).toString())
}
instead.
.filter(paths: Array): Array
type Pathname = string
Filters the given array of pathnames, and returns the filtered array.
- paths
Array.<Pathname>
The array ofpathname
s to be filtered.
Pathname
Conventions:
1. Pathname
should be a path.relative()
d pathname
Pathname
should be a string that have been path.join()
ed, or the return value of path.relative()
to the current directory.
// WRONG
ig.ignores('./abc')
// WRONG, for it will never happen.
// If the gitignore rule locates at the root directory,
// `'/abc'` should be changed to `'abc'`.
// ```
// path.relative('/', '/abc') -> 'abc'
// ```
ig.ignores('/abc')
// Right
ig.ignores('abc')
// Right
ig.ignores(path.join('./abc')) // path.join('./abc') -> 'abc'
In other words, each Pathname
here should be a relative path to the directory of the gitignore rules.
Suppose the dir structure is:
/path/to/your/repo
|-- a
| |-- a.js
|
|-- .b
|
|-- .c
|-- .DS_store
Then the paths
might be like this:
[
'a/a.js'
'.b',
'.c/.DS_store'
]
Usually, you could use glob
with option.mark = true
to fetch the structure of the current directory:
import glob from 'glob'
glob('**', {
// Adds a / character to directory matches.
mark: true
}, (err, files) => {
if (err) {
return console.error(err)
}
let filtered = ignore().add(patterns).filter(files)
console.log(filtered)
})
2. filenames and dirnames
node-ignore
does NO fs.stat
during path matching, so for the example below:
ig.add('config/')
// `ig` does NOT know if 'config' is a normal file, directory or something
ig.ignores('config') // And it returns `false`
ig.ignores('config/') // returns `true`
Specially for people who develop some library based on node-ignore
, it is important to understand that.
.ignores(pathname: Pathname): boolean
new in 3.2.0
Returns Boolean
whether pathname
should be ignored.
ig.ignores('.abc/a.js') // true
.createFilter()
Creates a filter function which could filter an array of paths with Array.prototype.filter
.
Returns function(path)
the filter function.
options.ignorecase
since 4.0.0
Similar as the core.ignorecase
option of git-config, node-ignore
will be case insensitive if options.ignorecase
is set to true
(default value), otherwise case sensitive.
const ig = ignore({
ignorecase: false
})
ig.add('*.png')
ig.ignores('*.PNG') // false
Upgrade Guide
Upgrade 2.x -> 3.x
- All
options
of 2.x are unnecessary and removed, so just remove them. ignore()
instance is no longer anEventEmitter
, and all events are unnecessary and removed..addIgnoreFile()
is removed, see the .addIgnoreFile section for details.
Upgrade 3.x -> 4.x
Since 4.0.0
, ignore
will no longer support node < 6, to use ignore
in node < 6:
var ignore = require('ignore/legacy')
Collaborators
- @whitecolor Alex
- @SamyPesse Samy Pessé
- @azproduction Mikhail Davydov
- @TrySound Bogdan Chadkin
- @JanMattner Jan Mattner
- @ntwb Stephen Edgar
- @kasperisager Kasper Isager
- @sandersn Nathan Shively-Sanders