Bower: "ignore" array in bower.json does not remove or ignore anything

[happypoulp]

Hi,

I tried the "ignore" option in bower.json with default parameters provided by a "bower init" command and it doesn't remove/ignore files and directory as it should.

Here is my bower.json config:

{
  "name": "bower_test",
  "version": "1.0.0",
  "ignore": [
    "**/.*",
    "node_modules",
    "bower_components",
    "test",
    "tests"
  ],
  "dependencies": {
    "pickadate": "git://github.com/amsul/pickadate.js.git#3.1.3"
  }
}

and after running a "bower install" command, here is the content of my bower_components/pickadate folder:

CHANGELOG.md           Gruntfile.js           README.md              api.htm                demo/                  lib/                   pickadate.jquery.json  time.htm
CONTRIBUTING.md        LICENSE.md             _raw/                  date.htm               index.htm              package.json           tests/                 v2/

and as you can see the pickadate folder still contain "tests" folder that should be ignored thanks to "ignore" array in my bower.json.

Am I missing / misunderstanding / misusing something?

I also tried to add "pickadate/tests", "pickadate/tests/*" and many more combination and none seems to have any impact on the content of my bower's pickadate folder.

Tested with:

node v0.10.15 + bower v1.0.0
and
node v0.8.12 + bower v0.8.5

[sindresorhus]

You can't ignore on behalf of other packages, it's atomic to your project. Pickadate needs to have the ignore property in its own bower.json.

[happypoulp]

Ok, thanks I didn't understand that by reading the docs.

[jacobtomlinson]

Agreed this wasn't obvious to me either!

[mrhammadasif]

It should work in the supposed way, i.e. ignore the folders or files from the downloaded packages as well....

[R4YM3]

wasn't clear to me either, thought exactly the same..

[anant-svc]

I know this is very old issue. But if the installing package bower.json does not have ignore then bower should check my bower.json file for ignore list.