ipfs-add: Add flag to exclude paths

[kyrias]

I started adding my website to IPFS, but there are some big directories that don't strictly belong in my website, so it would be useful to have an exclude flag to specify paths to files and directories to exclude from the add operation.

[whyrusleeping]

we should be getting support for an .ipfsignore file soon: #1448

[jbenet]

@kyrias would love to hear more things you run into. any UX feedback here would be very helpful

[kyrias]

.ipfsignore would be useful indeed, though it feels like an --exclude flag would be a good complement. Sometimes you might only want to exclude something once, or just add something once, and don't want to have to add the exclude to an ignore file.

[jbenet]

@kyrias the .ipfsignore changeset was harder than expected, so we punted for a bit.

we did merge in hidden files -- so this is a (nasty) hack around for now:

mv pls_ignore_this .pls_ignore_this
ipfs add -r .
mv .pls_ignore_this pls_ignore_this

hough it feels like an --exclude flag would be a good complement. Sometimes you might only want to exclude something once, or just add something once,

yeah maybe.

or, what do you think of a staging area, like git?

[wking]

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 06:20:50PM -0700, Juan Batiz-Benet wrote:

or, what do you think of a staging area, like git?

Having separate ‘add’ and ‘commit’ commands makes sense, but I don't
see the point of a separate pre-add staging command ;). I'm agnostic
on whether we have an --exclude in addition to .ipfsignore.

[AlbertoElias]

Any updates on this? Haven't found any docs about ignoring files/directories. Thanks!