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.
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.
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…
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.
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.