iterators

A collection of iterators and related utilities for Java, provided under the MIT license.

Iterator	Purpose
DirectoryFileIterator	Iterates over a directory, recursively or otherwise.
FilterableIterator	Iterates over a directory, with a filter.
ConcurrentIterator	A wrapper for an Iterator to provide thread-safe operations on it.
VCSRepositoryIterator	Each subclass of this iterates over tracked files in a version control repository system. This includes support for Git, Mercurial, and Subversion.

Creating a custom ignore file

You can create your own ignore file, like the .gitignore file using IgnoreFile.

1. Parse the ignore file using IgnoreFile.read(baseDirectory, ignoreFile). baseDirectory is folder the ignore file is being applied to.
2. Apply the rules using a FilterableIterator, which passes each file it may iterate over to IgnoreFile.ignored(file, rules).