--ignore option disappeared

[sherpadawan]

In 0.5.1 version grive does not provides --ignore option :/

[vitalif]

sorry :)
a lot of people didn't like it and I removed it in favor of new .griveignore feature.

[MangoMango666]

I understand Sherpadawan :
Options at the command line can be called according to circumstances (at a specific moment, I want to be able to ignore certain files), while a parameter file such as .griveignore is a setting that is used every time.

I suppose keeping both the --ignore option and the .griveignore was a bit complicated.
It would have been useful, though.

[sherpadawan]

Ok thanks for your reply. Seems to be better though

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[callegar]

A notable issue is that .griveignore does not seem to have sufficient flexbility to handle the cases that were supposed to be manageable by regular expressions.

For instance: I have a setup with a directory Foo being the only one I want to sync. However, Foo contains Bar that is huge and I do not want to sync. How do I specify this?

.gitignore containing

 *
 !Foo
 Foo/Bar

does not work

.gitignore containing

 Foo/Bar

with grive invoked with -s Foo does not work either. In both cases, Bar is synchronized.

[MaikoID]

If anyone could say to me what regex I need to put in the .griveignore file to skip .git directores I would be greatful.
I always have used the --ignore option that is missing now: grive --ignore='(.* link)|(.*.git)'
this way I could ignore all .git directories and folder that ends with ' link' in its name.
How can I have the same effect using the .griveignore ?

[EDIT]
I find out that it's not a perl regex it's a .gitignore sintax, please update the docs. So it became:
**/.git

[MangoMango666]

Use the .griveignore file instead of the -ignore option.