Exclude derived data folders from from Xcode

[mdab121]

[mdab121]

Hey!

Thanks for the response. You're right, that the DerivedData folder (which is basically build artifacts, indexes, etc) are located at ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData by default.

However it's very common to have it in the project directory. I do that as an iOS developer, and I know many other devs that do. That's why it's also listed in the default .gitignore for XCode.

It's really a time machine killer, because these tend to be ~1GB even for a simple XCode project.

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What i can suggest is to make it conditional to exclude DerivedData unless an XCode project file exists in the directory? Which would be anything like *.xcodeproj.

[stevegrunwell]

What i can suggest is to make it conditional to exclude DerivedData unless an Xcode project file exists in the directory? Which would be anything like *.xcodeproj.

I think that makes the most sense, but it'll require refactoring how the find command is utilized within Asimov, as test -e checks for the existence of a file, but doesn't account for wildcards.

We want to make sure that whatever we do here is still performant, but adding wildcard support would open up some opportunities.