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ignore
ignore is a manager, filter and parser which implemented
in pure JavaScript according to the .gitignore spec 2.22.1.
ignore is used by eslint, gitbook and many others.
Pay ATTENTION that minimatch
(which used by fstream-ignore) does not follow the
gitignore spec.
To filter filenames according to a .gitignore file, I recommend this
npm package, ignore.
To parse an .npmignore file, you should use
minimatch, because an .npmignore file is
parsed by npm using minimatch and it does not work in the
.gitignore way.
Tested on
ignore is fully tested, and has more than five
hundreds of unit tests.
- Linux + Node:
0.8-7.x - Windows + Node:
0.10-7.x, node <0.10is not tested due to the lack of support of appveyor.
Actually, ignore does not rely on any versions of node
specially.
Since 4.0.0, ignore will no longer support
node < 6 by default, to use in node < 6,
require('ignore/legacy'). For details, see CHANGELOG.
Table Of Main Contents
- Usage
PathnameConventions- See Also:
glob-gitignorematches files using patterns and filters them according to gitignore rules.
- Upgrade Guide
Install
npm i ignoreUsage
import ignore from 'ignore'
const ig = ignore().add(['.abc/*', '!.abc/d/'])Filter the given paths
const paths = [
'.abc/a.js', // filtered out
'.abc/d/e.js' // included
]
ig.filter(paths) // ['.abc/d/e.js']
ig.ignores('.abc/a.js') // trueAs the filter function
paths.filter(ig.createFilter()); // ['.abc/d/e.js']Win32 paths will be handled
ig.filter(['.abc\\a.js', '.abc\\d\\e.js'])
// if the code above runs on windows, the result will be
// ['.abc\\d\\e.js']Why another ignore?
ignoreis a standalone module, and is much simpler so that it could easy work with other programs, unlike isaacs’s fstream-ignore which must work with the modules of the fstream family.ignoreonly contains utility methods to filter paths according to the specified ignore rules, soignorenever try to find out ignore rules by traversing directories or fetching from git configurations.ignoredon’t cares about sub-modules of git projects.
Exactly according to gitignore man page, fixes some known matching issues of fstream-ignore, such as:
- ‘
/*.js’ should only match ‘a.js’, but not ‘abc/a.js’. - ‘
**/foo’ should match ‘foo’ anywhere. - Prevent re-including a file if a parent directory of that file is excluded.
- Handle trailing whitespaces:
'a '(one space) should not match'a '(two spaces).'a \ 'matches'a '
- All test cases are verified with the result of
git check-ignore.
- ‘
Methods
.add(pattern: string | Ignore): this
.add(patterns: Array<string | Ignore>): this
- pattern
String | IgnoreAn ignore pattern string, or theIgnoreinstance - patterns
Array<String | Ignore>Array of ignore patterns.
Adds a rule or several rules to the current manager.
Returns this
Notice that a line starting with '#'(hash) is treated as
a comment. Put a backslash ('\') in front of the first hash
for patterns that begin with a hash, if you want to ignore a file with a
hash at the beginning of the filename.
ignore().add('#abc').ignores('#abc') // false
ignore().add('\#abc').ignores('#abc') // truepattern could either be a line of ignore pattern or a
string of multiple ignore patterns, which means we could just
ignore().add() the content of a ignore file:
ignore()
.add(fs.readFileSync(filenameOfGitignore).toString())
.filter(filenames)pattern could also be an ignore instance,
so that we could easily inherit the rules of another Ignore
instance.
.addIgnoreFile(path)
REMOVED in 3.x for now.
To upgrade ignore@2.x up to 3.x, use
import fs from 'fs'
if (fs.existsSync(filename)) {
ignore().add(fs.readFileSync(filename).toString())
}instead.
.filter(paths: Array<Pathname>): Array<Pathname>
type Pathname = stringFilters the given array of pathnames, and returns the filtered array.
- paths
Array.<Pathname>The array ofpathnames to be filtered.
Pathname Conventions:
1.
Pathname should be a path.relative()d
pathname
Pathname should be a string that have been
path.join()ed, or the return value of
path.relative() to the current directory,
// WRONG, an error will be thrown
ig.ignores('./abc')
// WRONG, for it will never happen, and an error will be thrown
// If the gitignore rule locates at the root directory,
// `'/abc'` should be changed to `'abc'`.
// ```
// path.relative('/', '/abc') -> 'abc'
// ```
ig.ignores('/abc')
// WRONG, that it is an absolute path on Windows, an error will be thrown
ig.ignores('C:\\abc')
// Right
ig.ignores('abc')
// Right
ig.ignores(path.join('./abc')) // path.join('./abc') -> 'abc'In other words, each Pathname here should be a relative
path to the directory of the gitignore rules.
Suppose the dir structure is:
/path/to/your/repo
|-- a
| |-- a.js
|
|-- .b
|
|-- .c
|-- .DS_store
Then the paths might be like this:
[
'a/a.js'
'.b',
'.c/.DS_store'
]2. filenames and dirnames
node-ignore does NO fs.stat during path
matching, so for the example below:
// First, we add a ignore pattern to ignore a directory
ig.add('config/')
// `ig` does NOT know if 'config', in the real world,
// is a normal file, directory or something.
ig.ignores('config')
// `ig` treats `config` as a file, so it returns `false`
ig.ignores('config/')
// returns `true`Specially for people who develop some library based on
node-ignore, it is important to understand that.
Usually, you could use glob with
option.mark = true to fetch the structure of the current
directory:
import glob from 'glob'
glob('**', {
// Adds a / character to directory matches.
mark: true
}, (err, files) => {
if (err) {
return console.error(err)
}
let filtered = ignore().add(patterns).filter(files)
console.log(filtered)
}).ignores(pathname: Pathname): boolean
new in 3.2.0
Returns Boolean whether pathname should be
ignored.
ig.ignores('.abc/a.js') // true.createFilter()
Creates a filter function which could filter an array of paths with
Array.prototype.filter.
Returns function(path) the filter function.
.test(pathname: Pathname) since 5.0.0
Returns TestResult
interface TestResult {
ignored: boolean
// true if the `pathname` is finally unignored by some negative pattern
unignored: boolean
}{ignored: true, unignored: false}: thepathnameis ignored{ignored: false, unignored: true}: thepathnameis unignored{ignored: false, unignored: false}: thepathnameis never matched by any ignore rules.
options.ignorecase
since 4.0.0
Similar as the core.ignorecase option of git-config,
node-ignore will be case insensitive if
options.ignorecase is set to true (the default
value), otherwise case sensitive.
const ig = ignore({
ignorecase: false
})
ig.add('*.png')
ig.ignores('*.PNG') // falsestatic
ignore.isPathValid(pathname): boolean since 5.0.0
Check whether the pathname is an valid
path.relative()d path according to the convention.
This method is NOT used to check if an ignore pattern is valid.
ignore.isPathValid('./foo') // falseUpgrade Guide
Upgrade 4.x -> 5.x
Since 5.0.0, if an invalid Pathname passed
into ig.ignores(), an error will be thrown, while
ignore < 5.0.0 did not make sure what the return value
was, as well as
.ignores(pathname: Pathname): boolean
.filter(pathnames: Array<Pathname>): Array<Pathname>
.createFilter(): (pathname: Pathname) => boolean
.test(pathname: Pathname): {ignored: boolean, unignored: boolean}See the convention here for details.
If there are invalid pathnames, the conversion and filtration should be done by users.
import {isPathValid} from 'ignore' // introduced in 5.0.0
const paths = [
// invalid
//////////////////
'',
false,
'../foo',
'.',
//////////////////
// valid
'foo'
]
.filter(isValidPath)
ig.filter(paths)Upgrade 3.x -> 4.x
Since 4.0.0, ignore will no longer support
node < 6, to use ignore in node < 6:
var ignore = require('ignore/legacy')Upgrade 2.x -> 3.x
- All
optionsof 2.x are unnecessary and removed, so just remove them. ignore()instance is no longer anEventEmitter, and all events are unnecessary and removed..addIgnoreFile()is removed, see the .addIgnoreFile section for details.
Collaborators
- @whitecolor Alex
- @SamyPesse Samy Pessé
- @azproduction Mikhail Davydov
- @TrySound Bogdan Chadkin
- @JanMattner Jan Mattner
- @ntwb Stephen Edgar
- @kasperisager Kasper Isager
- @sandersn Nathan Shively-Sanders