I am begging you for a better Local-specific push/pull file ignore method

[tobyinternet]

I use Local with both WPE and Flywheel. (Now the same company, as I understand it.)
Great tool! Makes it worth sticking with these hosts as a dev. But pulling and pushing files to and from the server kind of sucks.

That comes down to two related issues - ignoring files, and waiting for the “magic” list of files to generate. Every single time I want to push a change to the server using Local, I have to wait for the file list, scroll through and uncheck my source and vendor folders, test files, local-dev uploads… all the stuff I never, ever want to push to the server.

I don’t know what mechanism it uses behind the scenes (git? ssh? sftp?), but whatever it is, there has to be a way to add like a .local-ignore file to handle this, right?

And even if “.wpe-pull-ignore” is a viable, working option for WPE, then that still leaves Flywheel in the dark with lesser citizen status.

I know I’m not the only one - I’ve seen several other issues/feature requests related to this, but they just get closed. Devs would use this feature, and I guarantee they’d be excited for it. It would save me (and all of us) time and effort and irritation every single day. Even if it only worked for pushing from local to the server, that would be a huge improvement.

[tomstuurlui]

Collected everthing here, let’s vote up to get some attention on it

Option to specify ignored files in MagicSync

I’ve seen this feature request a LOT of times here over the past years, but I want to do it once again, because they all don’t get any attention from Local. Please add a feature to either specify files to ignore using MagicSync, or even better to utilise the .ftpignore file. There’s already a default list with files that get ignores, so it should be really easy to add some user specified files to this. I never want to upload my Sass files, webpack config, source folder, etc. Thank you for reco…

[yohWill]

Yes some kind of config files similar to the .wpe-pull-ignore and .wpe-push-ignore files where you could put a safety on certain environments would take care of my only issue with local WP, namely that it’s too easy to inadvertently push to prod.

[Nick-B]

Are you using Local Connect with WP Engine @yohWill? If so you can create your own ignore file to hide what you would like.

Option to specify ignored files in MagicSync for Flywheel

Hi @tomstuurlui - welcome to the Local community! Are you hosting with Flywheel or with WP Engine? For WP Engine, see the files that are auto-excluded here: Local Connect - Local If you wish to add additional files, and are using WP Engine, you can create a .wpe-pull-ignore file in your /app/public/ directory, and Local will ignore any files/paths provided there. This is mentioned in the first post you linked. Does that solve the issue you’re having?

[yohWill]

I know about the ignore files. I don’t like that it’s very easy to push to the wrong environment or even the wrong site. Would like a way to with config files lock a code base to a specifi site, and restrict which environments I can push to. ( pull from anywhere is fine )

[Nick-B]

Okay thank you for the details on what you’re looking for @yohWill