Extra feature: ignore subdirectories

[Timmmy]

Hi Simon,

I've added support to ignore a directory (including subdirectories) in a fork (https://github.com/Timmmy/sigal/tree/Testbranch2). (Code needs some cleanup though)

When a file with the name '.sigalignore' is detected in a directory, it will ignore this directory and all subdirectories. I use this because we store all our pictures in one filetree, but we don't want all the pictures in the album.

Are you interested in including this feature in your repo?

Kind regards,

Tim

[saimn]

Hi Timmmy,
Thanks for the proposition. I would prefer to have a new setting in the settings file, which would contain a list of directories (or patterns) to ignore. This could be done easily with the fnmatch module (http://docs.python.org/2/library/fnmatch.html). What do you think ?

[Timmmy]

Hi Simon,

Sorry for the late response...

That would probably be a better solution for most users. However, in my case, it would be difficult to maintain such a list since there is no general pattern in which directories to ignore.

If you put code in the settings file, is it executed when the settings are loaded?
In that case we could implement an ignore list as you described above, but you can still build the list on the fly by adding some code in the settings file. I can then use the ignore files to build the ignore list...

What do you think?

[RSully]

I would like to see pattern based ignores.

[saimn]

Hi @RSully ,
it is something I have started to work on for directories, I will see how to make this work also for files.

[RSully]

Great! I don't see why it shouldn't just apply to both - presumably using a glob pattern?

[saimn]

I have added two settings, mostly for performance reasons (if you want to filter only directories, you don't want to match the patterns on all the files). It takes a list of pattern with the fnmatch module:
http://docs.python.org/2/library/fnmatch.html

[Timmmy]

Hi Simon,
Excellent addition, thanks!! (and sorry for the late response)
I've switched to pattern matching (adding suffix to dir names) instead of files so I can use your standard code.

Thank you for creating and maintaining an excellent piece of open source software!!

[saimn]

Hi Timmmy,
thank for the kind words :)