add ability to ignore directories in source

[saimn]

add ability to ignore directories in source

[saimn]

Having source == target is currently not possible as I check for this to avoid problems: https://github.com/saimn/sigal/blob/master/sigal/__init__.py#L115
I'm not sure if this should be doable or not ... I think it is more safe to have a directory like

├── source
├── _build
└── sigal.conf.py

However, it is a good idea to have a setting to ignore directory in the source directory.

[lkraav]

In our use case, bunch of design sources all sit in ~/public_html/design/. It'd be nice to keep the "top-level" in there clean, as in just 1 directory == 1 project, and also have sigal.conf.py sitting right there.

$ sigal build project project

could then maybe re-use the built-in "originals" feature to:

• move everything to originals/ right away
• programmatically change source -> source/originals/
• continue building index.html and rest of the stuff directly in "project"

Feels like it could work without a huge modification. Wdyt?

[saimn]

Having the target directory in the source one and ignoring it during the build should be easy to do, but reusing the "originals" images is more complicated. I will think about it, but the idea of sigal (and other static generators) is to split the inputs and the outputs, so can delete the outputs, and you can serve only the outputs with your webserver.

[rixx]

Regardless of the input == output debate, it would be rather nice to be able to ignore directories in your source directory, maybe via a custom prefix?

[saimn]

@rixx : this has been implemented in #63. I have no plan to support having source == target so I'm going to close this issue.