Build-Ignore

Generate branch specific .gitignore.

Install

yarn add build-ignore -D

or

npm i build-ignore -D

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Use

In order to use build-ignore you will need to create a gitignores directory with a text file using the name of your branch specific gitignore as well as your regular(master) gitingore.

- ./gitignores
  |_ gitingore_master.txt
  |_ gitingore_specialBranch.txt

From your terminal run ./node_modules/.bin/build-ignore. It will check the current branch and look for it in the gitignores folder. If one is not found it will create one using the gitingore_master.txt file. Must add .gitignore to each gitignore text file in order to avoid having to mess with tracking of actual .gitignore.

Git hooks

Use as a post-checkout git hook to have build-ignore run automatically when changing branches by adding the following to the .git/hooks directory:

#.git/hooks/post-checkout
#!/bin/sh

BRANCH_SWITCH="$3"

#check if it was a branch checkout
if [[ $BRANCH_SWITCH -eq 1 ]]
  then
    ./node_modules/.bin/build-ignore
fi

Alternatively, you can use a githooks module like husky and add the following to your package.json scripts section.

{
  "scripts": {
    "postcheckout": "./node_modules/.bin/build-ignore,
  }
}