Design/Implement a way to ignore files/folders when merging

[koreanwglasses]

Something similar to gitignore, it would live in either the project folder the user has, or would be in the folder with the stages.

[sjhuang26]

I will work on this.

[sjhuang26]

So here's the plan:

• Create a plain-text file called "ignored" in the root of the curriculum folder written in a style similar to gitignore (each line contains one exclusion pattern)
• Read the contents of the file into an array in the initialization step
• In the merge() functions, use a library to do the exclusion pattern checking: something like https://www.npmjs.com/package/glob.

Concerns:

• Naming of the config file? Does a config file already exist for curriculum? Maybe it's best to have one centralized config file.
• Would this ignored-files config be part of the EnvironmentManager object?

[koreanwglasses]

The plan sounds good.

We should have an option for an ignore file in every folder (with relative paths of course).

The ignored files can be part of warp drive for a few reasons:

• Warp Drive is already reading from the filesystem, and only needs to look at the ignore files when merging
• There is no need to handle them specially with EnvironmentManager, which is mostly focused on keeping links between the user's project and the project meta. That being said, this precise roles of each part of the model is not set in stone yet.