Sync only 1 folder and remember to ignore the rest of the folders

[BeUseful]

Real sorry, I know docs are written about this, but after trying multiple different ways to configure grive, I think its a bug, or maybe my command is wrong?

I have:
./dir1
./dir2
./dir3

Only want to sync dir1 and have grive ignore the rest (dir2 and dir3) permanently,
So I did grive --ignore -s '^(?\!dir1$) using perl regexp syntax, which is shown in .grive_state.

However after testing by running grive, sub-directories of dir2/test1 and dir3/test34 start to be "..creating local" when the only folder that should syncing /downloading is dir1.

[vitalif]

use grive --ignore '^(?!dir1($|/))'

[vitalif]

if you want to sync only dir then grive -s dir1 is the same and slightly more intuitive :)

[ghost]

Is there any way to have grive -s or grive --ignore be remembered so that I can just tell it the next time to grive and it won't pull down the whole drive content?

[florisvdh]

man grive > option -s says :

Internally converted to an ignore regexp, remembered for next runs.

However, when you run a simple grive next time, this works not as described. Indeed, all files will be synchronised when running grive again. So, the manual does not seem correct.

'Remembering' is rather obscure to me, and may not be logical for a simple grive command. One could make an alias in .bashrc to make such things happen (alias grive='grive -s <subdir>' or alias grive='grive --ignore <regexp>'). Moreover I saw that solving issue #58 was intended to not remember.

To 'remember' things it seems to me that having a persistent includes/excludes configuration file with directory/file patterns (perl regexp syntax), would be a convenient way for the user to choose which includes/excludes to maintain by default when running grive. This has been suggested in issue #120 .