grunt-gitexclude

Add and update a list of files into git exclude

Getting Started

This plugin requires Grunt ~0.4.1

If you haven't used Grunt before, be sure to check out the Getting Started guide, as it explains how to create a Gruntfile as well as install and use Grunt plugins. Once you're familiar with that process, you may install this plugin with this command:

npm install git+https://git@github.com/debugwand/grunt-gitexclude.git --save-dev

Once the plugin has been installed, it may be enabled inside your Gruntfile with this line of JavaScript:

grunt.loadNpmTasks('grunt-gitexclude');

The "gitexclude" task

Overview

In your project's Gruntfile, add a section named gitexclude to the data object passed into grunt.initConfig().

grunt.initConfig({
  gitexclude: {
    options: {
      id: "unique_identifier_for_the_list_of_files_to_ignore"
    },
    your_target: {
      destDir: 'foo/bar', //project folder where .git folder can be found. don't include .git/info/exclude, that is handled in the code
      src: ['folder/file', 'folder/folder'] //lines to add to git exclude
    },
  },
})

Options

options.id

Type: String Default value: ''

A string value that is used to demark the start and end of your list of files in the exclude file. This allows you to overwrite a block when you run the task rather than continually append to the file.

Release History

0.1.0 first release