How to ignore files/dotfiles?

[zeitchef]

Dotfiles are being listed by cheat as cheatsheet files (eg. .DS_Store) - anyway
to ignore these?

[chrisallenlane]

That's weird. cheat should be ignoring dotfiles by default:

cheat/internal/sheets/load.go

Lines 51 to 54 in 2c0099c

	// ignore dotfiles. Otherwise, we'll likely load .git/*
	if strings.HasPrefix(title, ".") {
	return nil
	}

Please show me the output from the following commands:

cheat -v

cheat -d

Thanks.

[zeitchef]

Sure thing, @chrisallenlane.

// cheat -v
3.0.3

// cheat -d
community: /Users/scott/.cheat/community
work: /Users/scott/.cheat/word
personal: /Users/scott/.cheat/personal

Running cheat -l lists dotfiles along with cheatsheets.

[chrisallenlane]

Oh, OK - I think I see what's happening here:

The current check simply looks for a . at the start of title. The intention was to prevent .git directories from being recognized as cheatsheets, but I didn't consider .DS_Store and other files that may end up polluting a sheet repository.

Your .DS_Store "cheatsheets" are all nested within other subdirectories, like rb/.DS_Store. Because the . isn't the first character in title in such cases, the current check will fail.

So, yeah, that's a bug. Thanks for sharing this information. I'll get a patch worked up in the next day or two.

[chrisallenlane]

@zeitchef, thanks again for reporting this. This should now be resolved in version 3.0.4. Please upgrade and let me know if you encounter any further errors.

[zeitchef]

@chrisallenlane - thanks for the speedy response! Works as expected on my side.

[chrisallenlane]

Excellent 👍