Client: gitignore interpretation

[clement-roblot]

Having a few software projects, I would like not to have to sync all the files of a project at each compilation.

It would be nice to be able to automatically add the content of the .gitignore files to the list of ignored files in owncloud sync.

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[wonook]

I agree. I also have a few folders using git repositories, and it's a burden unlinking them

[waterfoul]

I would love this too, or at least a .owncloudignore file which gets synced across all the machines

[mininao]

:+1:

[cruessler]

Would such a feature have a chance of getting accepted? If so, I might try to implement it.

[xn--nding-jua]

:+1:

[louismartin]

Same here with python virtual environments in git repositories.

[ogoffart]

We will not use the .gitignore file as this file is for git.
If anything, we could use a .syncignore file.

[ogoffart]

Actually, i think then this issue should be closed in favor of https://github.com/owncloud/client/issues/1558

[ogoffart]

This is not something we want.

Note: there is a pull request on the nextcloud repository: https://github.com/nextcloud/desktop/pull/745
(but the implementation as it is today looks like it would slow down the discovery a lot, so i do not recommand using that merge request in this state)