Suggestion: .putdocignore

[rolfn]

It would be nice to have a configuration file .putdocignore similar to .gitignore containing all files and directories to be ignored. I run in trouble e.g. with editor backup files like myfile.json~. I suppose that the following package can be used for this task: node-ignore Thanks in advance.

[natevw]

Thanks for this idea, and for the pull request! Following the .gitignore syntax is reasonable, however, I think it would be better to implement this as .couchappignore (also documented here) instead. I mean not just the format, but also re-use the name.

Not only does this help towards compatibility with existing CouchApps, it's defined as:

a simple json file containing an array of regexps

…so it might not require another dependency, but still be relatively simple to implement inline.

What do you think?

[rolfn]

I have no problems with this solution.

[natevw]

Hoping to tackle it this afternoon.

Also found couchapp/couchapp#204 while researching some of the details here (can .couchappignore appear in subfolders? what exactly does it match against?)

[natevw]

The Python project's handling of .couchappignore is kinda weird to me, it matches in an achored-to-start way, and only against each single path component. This severely limits what it can do, especially compared to the power of gitignore.

Here's my plan:

• array of regexes like couchapp, but matched against full (relative) path
• just one .couchappignore (at project root) for now at least

I think this keeps things simple, should be mostly backwards compatible with couchapp in practice, but also adds some putdoc-specific power if people want to use it.

(I'm hoping the Python couchapp could follow suit with the "match against relative path" logic.)

[natevw]

I added .couchappignore support per the comment above.

Published as putdoc@2.0.0 since it's technically a breaking change if excludeDirs was considered public API. (I guess v2 also marks a shift in my thinking from "quick hack upload tool I needed" to "simple tool that can upload most couchapps"… ;-)