foreverignore syntax/documentation

[EleanorRagone]

There doesn't seem to be any documentation on the syntax for a .foreverignore file - where can I get started on this? I'm having some trouble getting it working at all, as it doesn't seem to follow any normal .gitignore-style syntax.

[D1plo1d]

It seems like foreverignore has been moved to forever-monitor but I'm having the same issue, no matter what I try it just doesn't work.

https://github.com/nodejitsu/forever-monitor

[D1plo1d]

related: #235

[zevero]

.foreverignore file doesnt work at all for me. Is there still support for it? What can be done?

[Vadorequest]

You need to restart the forever process each time you change the .foreverignore file.

I also would like to get more information about syntax, such as limit it for .js files.

Edit: Seems like something like this works.

**/.idea/**
**/.git/**

**/.tmp/**
**/views/**
**/assets/**

# Restart only when js files are changed.
!*.js

[ph3nx]

When using *.log it ignores logfiles in the main directory and even in subdirectories.

[indexzero]

It is just like a .gitignore file.

[wyqydsyq]

I'm using forever 0.13.0 (latest on npm at time of writing) and have found out the hard way that .foreverignore behaves barely like a .gitignore file at all. The syntax is different and incredibly confusing to users expecting .gitignore syntax such as:

.tmp/*
.cache/*

You'd expect that would make forever ignore the contents of the .tmp/ and .cache/ folders which it doesn't, this still hasn't been resolved despite #235 having been open since early 2012.

This wouldn't be such a big problem if the correct use of .foreverignore was documented anywhere, which it isn't (unless you count GitHub issues as documentation which I don't)