allow selective deploy within directory tree

[fool]

Requested by a customer but perhaps has wider appeal than one person:

an ability to select files to exclude or include during a deploy of a directory.

Perhaps it could behave like .gitignore, where you could set patterns (eg node_modules/* or *.o) not to be deployed?

[dimkir]

Was looking around your documentation for this feature (most simple use case is that when I make static website on my dev machine, and want to publish it via netlify deploy, I usually don't want node_modules to be uploaded.

Surge.sh have done it in very simple way: by adding a custom ignore file and some reasonable defaults.

Is something like this possible in today's netlify-cli ?

[fool]

Nothing like that exists, but we'd accept contributions :)

All development going forward is going to be on the Go client: https://github.com/netlify/netlifyctl so if you're hoping for it to get implemented by us - that's the one to file the feature request on.

[bcomnes]

The upcoming 2.0.0 cli ignores node_modules and .dotfiles (except for .well-known) by default. Generally, it's better to copy the files you want hosted into a deploy folder than it is to deploy in folders that have files you want ignored. We may expand this capability in the future though.

[jimniels]

Would be nice to have this.

Certain files are already being excluded and the js-client used to have a deploy method which would allow you to specify a filter function for filtering out files you didn't want.

Would be nice to have some kind of glob pattern you could pass in that excludes files matching a certain pattern in your deploy dir, i.e.

netlify deploy --dir ./build --exclude "{**/_nested-name}"