Prevent specific files from being removed

[hagealex]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

I'm currently working on a project where multiple shops will use the same theme. The code of our theme is in a Gitlab repository and we deploy the theme in all shops using the Themekit deploy command.

Now, as I'm working on that theme I discovered that the Themekit does the following, according to the documentation :

Any files that are in the connected Shopify store, but aren't on your local disk, will be removed from Shopify.

This causes me some trouble. The reason: In these shops custom templates for collections will be used a lot. So the clients create new collection templates using the Shopify page editor. Then these custom files for the templates will be put into the templates folder.

As I don't have these files in my theme, after every deployment command they are removed. Unless I don't put these files into my theme (which would be a mess because, as I mentioned, lots of shops will use this theme) I don't see how I can work on the theme, deploy changes into the shops and prevent the custom template files from being removed.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like to have an option for the deploy command to prevent specific files from being removed. Like

keep_files:
  - templates/collection.*.json

So that if Shopify detects "there are files in the connected store that aren't on the local disk, but these files match this pattern, so don't remove them".

[hagealex]

This can be closed. I've overseen the ignore_files option of the Themekit.