How to exclude folders?

[theronic]

How do I instruct cargo watch to exclude folders? Doesn't seem to be supported so far, by the looks of cargo watch --help | grep exclude.

[hcpl]

cargo watch --ignore 'folder/*' works for me.

You could also add /folder to your .gitignore to always exclude it in future invocations.

[theronic]

Thanks. In this particular case, I have a mixed-source project (ClojureScript & Rust) and I didn't want Cargo to restart when I touch my *.cljs files :)

[skull-squadron]

/folder in .gitignore doesn't work.

[CGMossa]

I came here for this as well. I'd use an .ignore file for the projects, where you want to version-control none source-code related things as well.

[passcod]

This will be properly supported with the new (experimental) filtering engine when it lands later this year:

$ env CARGO_WATCH_FILTERER=tagged cargo watch

I'll reclose when that arrives

[passcod]

Correction, this will be properly supported via .gitignore and .ignore in the default/normal mode for a future release which will include Watchexec 2.

[yatesco]

Just my 2 pence: I want to ignore some folders which are checked into git. In my case, I have sass files which I want to version control but I don't want to restart the server every time I edit them - is that possible?

Thanks!

[passcod]

@yatesco that is supported, with --ignore '**/foldername/**. This issue is for the /foldername syntax from gitignore.

[yatesco]

Thanks @passcod. For my situation cargo watch -w src -x run is actually the simplest as the other folders are siblings of src. Thanks :-)