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Would love a .gitignore-like feature for file sync

I’d love to have a gitignore-style ignore file when syncing a folder from a computer. It would make it easy to exclude certain files or subfolders from being synced useful in cases like development folders where some content (temporary files) doesn’t need to be uploaded.

I'm considering moving away from GitHub for my personal projects I’d prefer not to store them there anymore. But right now, I don’t have a better solution that keeps everything in sync while letting me exclude unnecessary files. That’s why a feature like this would really help.

Apologies if this isn’t in line with the intended direction or if such a request already exists. I haven’t seen it, but thought I’d share the idea just in case.

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  • TheCleric commented  ·   ·  Report

    I frequently use Drive to backup my software projects so I can work on them across machines usually before I have created a remote git repo or am not yet ready to commit. This feature is very important otherwise all my space gets taken up by things like node_modules, pycache files, build artifacts, etc.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    I also get all sorts of sync failures in my LaTeX documents when LaTeX is compiling while proton drive is syncing. All this would not happen if we could ignore .gitignore-d files.

  • Anonymous commented  ·   ·  Report

    Over 50% of my data on ProtonDrive is useless .venvs. I really need this!

  • 4WoofGrrrr commented  ·   ·  Report

    How is it that this is not a basic feature?

    I am STUCK with an Alert about a file that WILL NOT sync because it is a Lock File for some app and it is always in use. And I can find no way to Dismiss this alert. If I could get ProtonDrive to Ignore this file, there would be no need for this alert.

  • [Deleted User] commented  ·   ·  Report

    I recently figured out that Git works perfectly with local folders as well so now I can back up my stuff to a drive using Git, and even make use of .gitignore. Still, having a simpler, Git-inspired backup tool built into Proton Drive would be awesome.But even this isn't ideal yet, because it's still not automatic even though the process is simpler and I can exclude files from being uploaded

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