excludes are either not working or have an uncommon syntax

[EugenMayer]

migrated from rsync to unison, some of the excludes are not working ( or all )

sync_excludes: ['Gemfile.lock','Gemfile','config.rb','.sass-cache/','sass/','sass-cache/','composer.json' ,'bower.json','package.json','Gruntfile*','bower_components/','node_modules/', '.gitignore','.git/','*.coffee','*.scss','*.sass','*.ts','*.less','sites/*.dev']

in specific, .git/ does not work

@mickaelperrin do the excludes work on your side? How do you define folder excludes / wildcards and so on? e.g. 'sites/*.dev' work to exclude all folders in sites/ with a suffix of dev

If we have a lot of edge-cases / odd syntax here, we might want to add some examples to the docs

[mickaelperrin]

Currently, the sync_exclude is rather simple and use the Path ignore method of unison.

FYI, here is my config : sync_excludes: [ '.git', '.idea', 'node_modules' ], and I can confirm none of these paths are synced.

Unison supports other excludes methods, like Fileand Regex, you can use them by using directly the sync_args option.

For example, to exclude the 'sites/*.dev', you could use:

sync_args = [ "-ignore='Regex sites/.*\.dev'" ]

[EugenMayer]

@mickaelperrin very interesting, ok. I ll close this ticket for now and give it a ride, if it work out i admit, your syntax is simpler, though for folders .git/ is rather usual, maybe we should write some general examples for that at some point.

Thank you for the hint with -ignore .. that can also become very handy.

For now, unison works pretty reliable in my case, just as rsync. As you suggested, i also have the feeling, that the time to resync from "event to file on the container" is shorter, more responsive.

[EugenMayer]

I can reproduce that e.g. .git / bower_componets folder are synced if excludes looking like this:

sync_excludes: ['Gemfile.lock','Gemfile','config.rb','.sass-cache','sass','sass-cache','composer.json' ,'bower.json','package.json','Gruntfile*','bower_components','node_modules', '.gitignore','.git','*.coffee','*.scss','*.sass','*.ts','*.less','sites/*.dev']

could the issue be "nested" folders, so if .git is not in the top-level of the current sync-root?

[mickaelperrin]

Yes you are right -Path matches exactly the provided path relative to the root.

I added some documentation about it in #122

[EugenMayer]

@mickaelperrin thanks, were could i find those docs? is there any syntax to provide something like "at any level" ?

[mickaelperrin]

The provided path points the specific part of the Unison documentation related to Path and Excludes. I didn't tried it but I suspect you have to Use the -Name option rather than -Path.

Name name matches any path in which the last component matches name,

http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#pathspec

[EugenMayer]

implemented in #132, see https://github.com/EugenMayer/docker-sync/blob/master/example/docker-sync.yml#L96 for the new options.

Definitely planning to make "Name" the default type with 0.2.0 if you do not veto it

[mickaelperrin]

Great addition, no pb to make 'Name' the default. Indeed, I badly read the unison documentation and it should have been the default since the beginning.

[nei]

Hi, I couldnt make the excludes work for me.

I've tried using both sync_excludes as well as sync_args specifiying the paths manually. I still can see the cache and logs folder being synced. Can you advice me how to properly setup this? I've followed the unison manual but just doesnt work.

version: "2"

options:
  verbose: true

syncs:
  dt-akeneo-unison-sync:
    notify_terminal: true

    src: './'

    sync_userid: 1000
    sync_strategy: 'unison'

    # optional, a list of regular expressions to exclude from the fswatch - see fswatch docs for details
    #watch_excludes: ['\.git', '\.gitignore', '.*\.md', '\.cache.\php']

    sync_args:
      #- "-debug verbose" #force Unison to choose the file with the later (earlier) modtime
      - "-ignore='Path app/cache'"
      - "-ignore='Path app/logs'"
      - "-ignore='Path .git'"
      - "-ignore='Path vendor'"
      - "-ignore='Path upgrades'"
      - "-ignore='Path systems'"

    # optional: use this to switch to fswatch verbose mode
    watch_args: '-v'

my docker-compose-dev seems like this

version: '3.3'
services:
  web:
    volumes:
      - dt-akeneo-unison-sync:/var/www/html:nocopy # nocopy must be used for docker-sync
      - ~/.ssh:/root/.ssh
      - ~/.composer:/root/.composer

volumes:
  dt-akeneo-unison-sync:
    external: true

I've described a bit more in this post on stackoverflow

[EugenMayer]

very good post @nei