Exclude Files from Capistrano / Source Control

Rails
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Hello,

I have some video clips I want to make accessible through my web server
(through the public folder). However, they are large and I do not want
to commit them to Git so that capistrano can automatically upload them.

What’s the best way of doing this?

Thanks,

John

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Assuming the files are all below some common point like “public/
big_video_clips/” you can just add “public/big_video_clips/*” to
the .gitignore file in the project root.

On Apr 18, 2:16 pm, John H. [email protected]

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Rick Lloyd wrote:

Assuming the files are all below some common point like “public/
big_video_clips/” you can just add “public/big_video_clips/*” to
the .gitignore file in the project root.

On Apr 18, 2:16�pm, John H. [email protected]

Thanks. To confirm, Capistrano will still deploy files even if they are
gitignored as long as they are in a subdirectory like public/big/* ?

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On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 5:36 PM, John H. <
[email protected]> wrote:

Rick Lloyd wrote:

Assuming the files are all below some common point like “public/
big_video_clips/” you can just add “public/big_video_clips/*” to
the .gitignore file in the project root.

On Apr 18, 2:16�pm, John H. [email protected]

Thanks. To confirm, Capistrano will still deploy files even if they are
gitignored as long as they are in a subdirectory like public/big/* ?

Capistrano will only deploy files if they do not match a pattern within
your .gitignore file. For example,

public/big/*

will exclude all files and folders who’s parent folder is
‘#{RAILS_ROOT}/public/big’. If you
need more information, I would highly recommend that you view the
following screencast(s)
if you haven’t done so:

There are several other screencasts by the same author as well as others
on
the web which
go into various degrees of detail.

Good luck,

-Conrad