Excluding files does not work

[samkirkland]

Excluding files does not work

[SamKirkland]

I dug into this a bit and tried it out on my deployment tests. Looks like LFTP actually adds ** in front of all glob paths automatically so the correct code is the following.

--exclude-glob=.git*/** --exclude-glob=.git** --exclude-glob=.htaccess

Nice catch, i'll update the readme.

[SamKirkland]

Because the .git and .htaccess files have already been uploaded to the server you'll have to manually delete them or add --delete-excluded

Try deleting those files manually, then re-deploying and let me know if it's working 😄

[vvye]

Thanks for your reply! I've tried deleting the .git and .github folders and they keep reappearing, unfortunately. As for .htaccess, I'd like to keep the version on the server and stop it from being overwritten with the one in the repo.

[SamKirkland]

Can you verify it works on your end before I close this out 😄

[vvye]

Yep, looks like that worked. Thanks!

(edit: while that fixes the most important issue, --only-newer still seems to do nothing on my end.)

[SamKirkland]

Yeah unfortunately FTP doesn't have any built in way of diffing two file trees. LFTP has built out some basic diffing on top of FTP but its still nowhere near as solid as rsync.

Recursion mode can be one of always', never', missing', newer'. With the option `newer' mirror compares timestamps of directories and enters a directory only if it is older or missing on the target side. Be aware that when a file changes the directory timestamp may stay the same, so mirror won't process that directory.

To be honest I've done limited testing with those flags as my sites are are relatively small so transferring the entire project is still quick. I need to spend some more time and see if a solution is possible.
Using --only-newer as well as --ignore-time (description: ignore time when deciding whether to upload) might be a good start ¯\(ツ)/¯

[pgram1]

I dug into this a bit and tried it out on my deployment tests. Looks like LFTP actually adds ** in front of all glob paths automatically so the correct code is the following.

--exclude-glob=.git*/** --exclude-glob=.git** --exclude-glob=.htaccess

Nice catch, i'll update the readme.

This solution did not work for .md files with --delete-excluded --exclude-glob=.md*/** --exclude-glob=.md** --exclude-glob=md*/** --exclude-glob=md** --exclude-glob=.MD*/** --exclude-glob=.MD** --exclude-glob=MD*/** --exclude-glob=MD** ARGS

Had to --exclude-glob=readme.md*/** --exclude-glob=readme.md**