Exclude files from building, a la ".unoignore

How-to Discussions
1

How-to exclude files from being packaged and build, e.g. folders like “.idea” and “.ds_store” ?

2

Hi!

We don’t have an exclude-feature per se, but you can go into your .unoproj and replace the Include: "*" with more granuarly including the files and folders you actually want to include :slight_smile:

3

Thank you for your response, however despite making the includes explicit, it still includes everything else e.g. “.idea” directories, which naturally is not intended.

4

It shouldn’t. Of course you also need to remove the “*”. If it doesn’t work, can yo show us your complete unoproj?

5

Contents of the project file

{
        "Packages": [
                "Fuse.Animations",
                "Fuse.BasicTheme",
                "Fuse.Themes",
                "Fuse.Controls",
                "Fuse.Designer",
                "Fuse.Drawing",
                "Fuse.Drawing.Primitives",
                "Fuse.Effects",
                "Fuse.Elements",
                "Fuse.Entities",
                "Fuse.Gestures",
                "Fuse.Navigation",
                "Experimental.Physics",
                "Fuse.Scripting",
                "Fuse.Shapes",
                "Fuse.Triggers",
                "Fuse.Reactive",
                "Fuse.Android",
                "Fuse.Desktop",
                "Fuse.iOS",
                "Fuse.UserEvents",
                "FuseCore",
                "Uno.Collections",
                "Uno.Geometry"
        ],
    "Includes": [
        "app.js:File",
        "app.ux:UXFile",
        "theme.ux:UXFile"
    ],
    "Android": { // removed }
}

Output on the fs

file
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Command I run

uno build --target=android --configuration=Release
6

I just remembered reading something about this, and went back to the very beginning… https://www.fusetools.com/learn/fuse… and came across the paragraph below… however, being a long shot, it also didn’t yield any result.

Sublime Text projects When you drop a folder into Sublime Text 3, it will by default search through all files in all subfolders. When building a Fuse project, this isn’t always what you want.

If you create a file called ProjectName.sublime-project, you can drop this into it to make it ignore the .uno and build directories:

{
    "folders":
    [
        {
            "folder_exclude_patterns":
            [
                "build",
                ".uno",
                ".idea",
                "tasks"
            ],
            "path": "."
        }
    ]
}
7

Hi Peter, I tried to reproduce it and it seems like the .idea/ folder inside build/ doesn’t actually contain the same things as the .idea/ folder placed in the root project directory.

In other words: while something strange is going on it doesn’t seem like Fuse is actually bundling the files. Can you check whether this is the case for you as well?

8

Actually, it seems like the Android build contains an .idea folder regardless of what you place in the project directory and that this is completely unrelated.

9

Hi Remi,

Yes, I just did a similar experiment, removing the folder entirely, and then see if would appear, and it does, so I suppose this is intrinsic to Android in this context, however it’s odd since .idea is with respect to JetBrains and not to Android… somewhat odd, however for now I believe it’s safe to just ignore the folder…