dropboxignore

A small utility for dealing with ignored files when using dropbox on Linux. It introduces a simple .dropboxignore with the same contents as a standard .gitignore file that can be placed anywhere in the dropbox sync folder. When this program is run with the check command and a path to the dropbox sync folder, it will traverse the folders and match each file against the found .dropboxignore files (respecting all files in the parent folders as well), and update the com.dropbox.ignored extended file attribute to tell dropbox to ignore (eg. not sync) the specified file or folder.

The idea is that the dropboxignore tool shall be run periodically, eg. every minute, to keep the right files and folders ignored while you work.

As an example of a .dropboxignore file, see the one in this repo. Very useful for keeping dropbox from syncing the rust target/ folder containing build artifacts.

Usage

Usage: dropboxignore <COMMAND> [FLAGS] <FOLDER SYNCED BY DROPBOX>

Commands:
  check      Traverse and ignore files as depicted by the .dropboxignore files.
  ignore     Ignore the specified file/folder.
  unignore   Unignore the specified file/folder.

Options:
  --dry-run        Do not apply any changes to the file system, only print out what it
                   would do if run without the flag.
  -r, --recursive  Apply ignore and unignore commands to all files and subfolders of the
                   provided folder, recursively.