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Jacob Alley
Jacob Alley

Reputation: 834

Ignore all nested subdirectories in .tfignore

I have a folder structure like so:

-root
 -Proj1
    -Addedthings
       -Tables
          TableFiles
  -Proj2 
    -Addedthings
      -Tables
        TableFiles
   -Proj3
     TableFiles
   .tfignore

In this case I want to exclude all files inside of any of the AddedThings/Tables/ directories.

I have tried doing AddedThings/Tables

and

/AddedThings/Tables

And I have had no luck. Can someone please assist.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 814

Answers (1)

PatrickLu-MSFT
PatrickLu-MSFT

Reputation: 51073

.tfignore file will ignore the given pattern in all subdirectories . And it will ignore files or folders with the given name. For folders, it will apply recursively.

As a result, a .tfignore with:

Tables

This will ignore any folder named Tables in your filesystem hierarchy, and it will ignore them recursively.

For those Tables folder which is not under Addedthings/Tables you can create .tfignore files in sub-folders to override the effects of a .tfignore file in a parent folder.

Note:

  1. A filespec is recursive unless prefixed by the \ character.

  2. This .tfignore file will not affect with those files already in source control. You need to remove them from source control first. Also make sure your .tfignore files have checked in source control.

Upvotes: 2

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