Nodemon: folders with suffix .git not detecting changes

[jascodes]

Hi @remy

I use .git suffix for my git projects. When I try to use nodemon on lets say folder Projectxx.git; they changes won't get detected.

Thx

[rjmunro]

I have a related problem as I have a file in my project called coverage.js, and it is getting ignored by the (undocumented) ignoreRoot entry "coverage". I think the entries in ignoreRoot should only match exact folder names, not partial names or file names.

[mattlyons0]

I think how Nodemon handles ignoring file/folder names is a problem. It uses the ignore-by-default package and fuzzy ignores those names. This means anything with '.git' in the absolute path ignored, the same goes for anything containing 'coverage' or 'node_modules' in the absolute path. I think this is a problem as all of the cases is in the ignore-by-default package were meant (under my understanding) to be used only for exact matches. I will look into making a PR to fix this.

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[rjmunro]

AFAIK, this hasn't been fixed. The PR to fix it was closed, not accepted.

[remy]

Yeah, the PR added a new regexp without any real explanation as to what it did, but more importantly, it didn't actually test that it worked. I'd be more than happy to reopen.

[dominykas]

A workaround while the fix is being worked on is to override default ignored folders, e.g. place the below in nodemon.json:

{ 
  ignoreRoot: [ '.nyc_output', '.sass-cache', 'bower_components', 'coverage', 'node_modules' ]
}

The above keeps the current defaults, but excludes .git.