Description
Would be great to support negated patterns in the ignore
option.
Use case: respect files like .gitignore
(or others like .prettierignore
etc) when globbing.
E.g. globby has the gitignore
option which does the .gitignore
reading, parsing and evaluation.
I wouldn't expect tinyglobby to include this feature (to read and parse such ignore files), but would be great to support negated ignore
patterns so tinyglobby could be extended to support the use case.
The same has been requested in both node-glob and fast-glob, but neither of them currently supports it. Refs:
- Ignore patterns don't work in
ignore
option mrmlnc/fast-glob#86 - Does not match for negative ignore isaacs/node-glob#409
It would make migration more interesting for globby (with gitignore: true
) users. Also I understand tinyglobby wants to stay tiny so feel free to reject!
Here's an example simplified use case to clarify things a bit. Let's say we want to glob all **/index.js
files in a workspace that has this .gitignore
:
.yarn/*
!.yarn/patches
...
And files:
.
├── index.js
└── .yarn
├── patches
│ └── index.js
└── index.js
After reading the .gitignore
file(s) and converting the patterns the options look like this:
glob(["**/*.js"], {
dot: true,
ignore: ["**/.yarn/*", "!**/.yarn/patches/**"],
});
Expected result:
["index.js", ".yarn/patches/index.js"]
Just saying, for users to stuff it all into patterns
argument directly is likely not a good idea. I think this doesn't and shouldn't work:
glob(["**/*.{js,ts}", "!.yarn", ".yarn/patches/**/*.{js,ts}"], { dot: true })