custom skip/include lists

[seanrjohnson]

It would be nice to be able to skip the .git folders but not skip all non-tracked files.

In my case, I have some singularity .sif containers which are the executables for my workflow, so I need them to be copied/symlinked into the test directory. But they are not part of my git repo (I track the Singularity.def files and rebuild the sif files on target machines as needed).

using --ga skips the .git folders (which is good for me), but also skips the .sif files (which is bad for me). Is there a good workaround for this? My current workaround is just to not use --ga, but that seems inefficient because it's staging a whole bunch of files I don't need.

[rhpvorderman]

How is the performance, with --symlink? Is that acceptable?
Can you do a find | wc -l and a git ls-files |wc -l for comparison? Can you give me some numbers on the time that tests take to run with and without --ga?

Adding another feature will increase the complexity of the project. If the current functionality leads to considerable slowdowns than it is something worth considering, depending on the costs. So I need a bit more numbers before I can make a good judgement.

[seanrjohnson]

With --symlink, the performance seems fine. So probably not urgent so support something like this. Thanks.

[rhpvorderman]

Thanks for reporting back on this. Since --symlink does solve your issues for now, custom exclude lists will not be implemented. The primary argument being that custom exclude lists will be a complicated addition to the code. I will leave this issue open in case more use cases for custom exclude lists arise.