.claspignore is not ignoring anything in it

[sarahdriver]

Expected Behavior

I expected my .claspignore to ignore the files in it.

Actual Behavior

Nothing in .claspignore is being ignored. It also looks like it's not ignoring whatever starts with a period.

Steps to Reproduce the Problem

1. Create a .claspignore file
2. Put in every version possible of what I'm trying to ignore:
   /node_modules
   node_modules/
   node_modules/**
   /node_modules/
   node_modules//.*
   node_modules//./**
   \node_modules
   node_modules
   node_modules*
   *\node_modules*
   node_modules*.
   node_modules*.**
   node_modules
3. clasp status shows me way too much.
   (I am a newbie and I could be missing something, but still.)

Specifications

• Node version (node -v): 18.16.0
• Version (clasp -v): 2.4.2
• OS (Mac/Linux/Windows): Windows

[dandv]

It also looks like it's not ignoring whatever starts with a period.

Same here, plus #983.

[lucia-gomez]

Also having this issue and it's blocking all work

[dotysan]

Brand new here with a big .venv/ and .git/ in my project. The clasp status output is a mess. And super inefficient! #694

It continues to recursively scan ignored folders. And spam the output with a long list of ignored files. So one might miss the short list of of included ones.

Workaround: clasp status |sed '/^Ignored/q'

Not ignored files:
└─ /foo/appsscript.json

Ignored files:

[zawadsoon]

I struggled with this one too and figured it out.

Maybe this information will help someone else. The multimatch package is used under the hood to ignore files. See:

clasp/src/files.ts

Lines 86 to 87 in d633ca9

	const isIgnored = (file: string) =>
	multimatch(path.relative(rootDir, file), ignorePatterns, {dot: true}).length > 0;

If you look at the multimatch docs, this package uses globbing patterns to match files. Now look at the mentioned code. If some of the provided patterns match the relative path, then a file is marked as ignored.

If you want to ignore directories, you should do:

.cache/**
.git/**
node-modules/**

If you want to ignore files, the file name is enough:

.gitignore
Makefile
README.md
package-lock.json
package.json

Notice that if you add a comment like # directories, it will be passed to multimatch function too.

I also noticed very poor performance when ignoring the node_modules/ directory, as all files inside are iterated.

I hope this helps!