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Google App Engine App.yaml config for skip-files to ignore Mercurial files

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By default unix style hidden files and folders are skipped. In other words, any file starting with a dot (.) is already skipped. That is what the last line in your list would do if it did not have the missing * at the end (I assume the \s are actually there).

Your suggestion of: ^(.*/)?.hg$ is not quite right. To match any file starting with .hg you need ^(.*/)?\.hg.*.

You should read about regular expressions.

edit: adding dump from appcfg.py update -v .

Scanning files on local disk.
2010-10-10 17:14:07,244 INFO appcfg.py:1693 Ignoring directory '.hg': Directory matches ignore regex. 
2010-10-10 17:14:07,244 INFO appcfg.py:1686 Ignoring file '.hgignore': File matches ignore regex.

Robert Kluin 2010-10-10 02:29:41

Mercurial also has a folder called .hg My regex was hoping to catch the .hgignore file and the .hg directory and all its files. For example a file called undo.branch inside the .hg folder is actually called .hg\undo.branch which would be matched by my expression. In other words: anything *starting* with .hg must not be uploaded to Google.

2010-10-10 07:25:48

Does app engine see .hg\undo.branch or does it see undo.branch? What does it pass to the regex subroutine?

2010-10-10 07:28:12

Your suggested pattern would match something that ended in "hg". It will look at the path, so it will see '.hg/undo.branch'. The regex I suggested should catch anything starting with '.hg' then followed by zero or more characters. But, again, the default skip-files pattern should be skipping anything that starts with a period.

Robert Kluin 2010-10-10 18:16:44

It doesn't appear to be uploading the files - but then I also don't know how to tell the GAE GUI to give me a verbose listing when it deploys. I certainly don't know how to "explore" the files uploaded to app engine to verify!

2010-10-10 19:56:14

Run `appcfg.py update -v .` from the command line. That will give you verbose output. As you can see from my output, the default settings *will ignore* `.hg*`.

Robert Kluin 2010-10-10 21:15:49

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