Whitelist/Include mode.

[artem-zinnatullin]

On our big project I'm constantly facing issue of syncing too much unnecessary data thus have to explicitly ignore lots of different entries.

Another problem is that if you change some source files locally during remote execution, Mainframer can override them with remote version after Sync remote → local machine...

To solve these issues we can give users a way to mix following rsync options:

--exclude=PATTERN exclude files matching PATTERN
--exclude-from=FILE read exclude patterns from FILE
--include=PATTERN don't exclude files matching PATTERN
--include-from=FILE read include patterns from FILE

So I could put * in .mainframer/remoteignore and then put build (to sync Gradle build output for example) in .mainframer/remoteinclude

@ming13 WDYT?

[artem-zinnatullin]

This won't be a breaking change btw

[Pozzoooo]

Global configuration are quite useful here :)

For the sync back I've added *.kt and *.java in the localignore

[artem-zinnatullin]

Yeah, in my case there are also files with no pattern in them

Also excluding everything by default and whitelisting what you want to sync might make rsync faster during fs lookup, I'll need to benchmark this though

[arturdryomov]

Sounds good, but isn’t it gonna complicate things by a certain magnitude? I. e. you should keep in mind which files are included and excluded and what the resolution would be in the end. I’m talking about the user perspective BTW.

What about a radical idea to replace excludes with includes only?

[artem-zinnatullin]

Well, yeah I've thought about includes-only but idk, you can get exact same problem but upside down.

What I like about current proposal is that it's not breaking change or complication, but rather an additional feature.

Also, git has similar concept with ! to unignore stuff.

[arturdryomov]

Then sure thing, let’s do it!

[vganin]

Hi, is this feature going to make to 2.x? It might come very handy.