Useful .stignore Patterns

[calmh (Jakob Borg)]

@Andy

I want to discuss a possible case. If I want to sync a folder but not the subfolders, I have to ignore ALL subfolders. For that / in the stignore should be work.

I’d try /*/** which should match everything one level down or more.

@Andy

Is possible, that sub-folders under root level will still be created on the other remote peers (folders) and they are all empty and nothing inside them, so maybe I have just a bunch of empty sub-folders?

Yep.

@Andy

Further, is possible, if someone accidently delete or modify the empty folders on the remote peer sides, which were not allowed to be synced, then on the server side the original folders content lots important files, will also be deleted real quick? Maybe, because Syncthing considered that folder is no longer exist and removed it?

No. Syncthing will try, complain that the folder is not empty, and suggest that maybe you have an ignore setup like described here.

@Andy

Maybe helps, if I had some files or folders don’t wanna to be synced, simply prefix a ~ to these folders, and they will disappear like a charm on other peers. No need to add rules into the stignore. Just prefix a ~ to ignore. Is possible to use this method on almost any folder / files?

I’m not sure how you mean this to work exactly.