Ignore files from role

[chouseknecht]

From @srizzling on December 1, 2016 22:50

Is there a way I can ignore files being downloaded by the ansible-galaxy client when installing my role.

I place a vault file in my role, to make the tests run and pass, and I do not want people to download the vault file included to make the tests pass.

If this isn't part of ansible galaxy, I think it might be useful, maybe via a .galaxyignore file maybe?

Thanks,
Sriram

Copied from original issue: ansible/galaxy-issues#222

[chouseknecht]

From @danlamanna on April 25, 2017 17:27

Agreed, for certain roles I don't want to distribute an exhaustive test suite through Galaxy.

[chouseknecht]

From @srizzling on April 25, 2017 21:46

There is a way, which is kind of cheating, but you can add the files you want to ignore to a .gitattributes file in repo and add the flag "export-ignore", an example is here: https://github.com/srizzling/rkt-role/blob/master/.gitattributes.

[nottheswimmer]

Any progress on this? Two years later and I find myself still needing a solution.