Prevent action from overwriting certain files

[loicnestler]

Hey there!

I'm using this action to develop a Shopify theme for a client of mine.
My set-up is the following:
Branch dev contains 2 directories: src and theme. My action builds JS / CSS from src into theme/assets and pushes the theme dir into branch main.
The main branch is linked-up into their Shopify store, so whenever I push some changes, it gets (nearly) instantly reflected in their web shop.

However, whenever they customize the theme using Shopify's theme editor, Shopify stores the set settings into main: /config/settings_data.json.
Can I somehow exclude this file from getting overwritten by my workflows, so that I don't reset all settings on every push of mine?

I already tried adding an .autopublish.ignore file in the root of my dev branch (and obv added CLEAR_GLOBS_FILE: ".autopublish-ignore" into my workflow.yml) containing the following 2 lines:

!theme/config/settings_data.json
!config/settings_data.json

but it somehow doesn't seem to do anything.

Thanks in regards!

[s0]

Hi @loicnestler.

When using CLEAR_GLOBS_FILE, it replaces the default behavior of deleting everything, so you need to also add the default globs for deleting everything:

**/*
!.git
!theme/config/settings_data.json
!config/settings_data.json

I have added additional documentation / examples here: https://github.com/s0/git-publish-subdir-action#custom-clear-operations