Option to specify ignored files in MagicSync for Flywheel

[tomstuurlui]

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 reconsidering.

Some of the earlier requests:

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

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, …

Ignore Files

[Screen Shot 2022-04-21 at 10.21.22 AM] It would be great to have a simple way to manage ignore-files. Currently, only manual deselect on sync is the only available option.

Every time we push from local we push all files, any idea to ignore certain folder?

Hi @expresstechsoftware Are you referring to something different than our MagicSync feature? Are you looking for some kind of permanent setting you could adjust for all sites?

Ignore Media Files on Push & Pull

Love the checkbox that allows me to ignore DB on push. Would love something similar for media My clients seem to really hate me and always upload lots of video and images. pushing and pulling gigs of data is not my idea of a fun time.

Don't push/pull .sass-cache

I thought for sure this had been resolved in a previous version, and that there was a thread on here about it, but nothing turned up in a search. .sass-cache can probably safely be excluded by default, but it would be helpful to be able to customize this, too. (I tried adding it to File Exclusion Filter in Exporting preferences, but it doesn’t work.)

FTP support

Add support for custom FTP with magicsync functionality

[austinwendt]

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?

[tomstuurlui]

I’m using Flywheel!

[austinwendt]

Okay, that is good to know! Thanks. Those ignore files are a WP Engine only feature, but something to evaluate on Flywheel.

I’m going to update the title here to make it Flywheel-specific so that other people can find it more easily.

[picklebrownie]

I would love to have this feature!

[picklebrownie]

Keeping this thread alive. still hoping for a response regarding this feature. Would be nice to integrate version control like git inside the push/pull pipeline…

[Nick-B]

Thank you for the bump here @picklebrownie! We’ve had to continue to prioritize other work but we’re always watching our requests for interest from the community to help with future roadmaps.

[emsixteen]

@austinwendt

I’m going to update the title here to make it Flywheel-specific so that other people can find it more easily.

… but the discussion and the other threads which have been merged into this aren’t Flywheel-specific, they’re general for Local as a whole.

People, myself included, want to be able to specify which files/folders are ignored when syncing to either WP Engine or Flywheel.

[Nick-B]

@emsixteen to clarify are you having issues when specifying files and folders for ignoring on WPE as outlined by Austin here?

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?

[jimmychu0807]

I am here to bump up this issue as well. I am with Flywheel hosting and would like to have this feature of ignoring certain files/directories in pushing/pulling. Thanks.