Convert Gitignore to Glob patterns

• Install
• Usage
• Main API
  • GlobifiedEntry (type)
  • globifyGitIgnoreFile (function)
  • globifyGitIgnore (function)
• Other API
  • globifyPath (function)
  • globifyDirectory (function)
  • globifyGitIgnoreEntry (function)
  • getGlob (function)
  • globSorter (variable)
  • uniqueMatcher (function)
  • uniqueGlobs (function)
  • uniqueSortGlobs (function)
  • posixifyPath (function)
  • posixifyPathNormalized (function)
  • getPathType (function)
• 🤝 Contributing

Install

npm install --save globify-gitignore

globify-gitignore is tiny and treeshakable.

Usage

Use globifyGitIgnoreFile to pass the path to a directory that has a .gitignore file.

import { globifyGitIgnoreFile, globifyGitIgnore } from "globify-gitignore"

// ./ is the path that has a .gitignore
globifyGitIgnoreFile("./")

Use globifyGitIgnore to directly globify the gitignore content

import { globifyGitIgnore } from "globify-gitignore"

const gitignoreContent = `# OS metadata
.DS_Store
Thumbs.db

# Node
node_modules
package-lock.json

# TypeScript
*.tsbuildinfo

# Build directories
dist
`
const gitignoreDirectory = __dirname

// An array of `GlobifiedEntry` objects. Each object has a `glob` property and an `included` property
const globifiedEntries = await globifyGitIgnore(gitignoreContent, gitignoreDirectory)

Main API

GlobifiedEntry (type)

The result of a globified gitignore entry. The glob pattern is in the glob property, and the included property tells if the pattern is an included file or an excluded file

export type GlobifiedEntry = {
  /** The glob pattern calculated from the gitignore pattern */
  glob: string
  /**
   * If `true`, this means that the pattern was prepended by `!` in the gitignore file, and so it is an included file
   * Otherwise, it is an excluded file
   */
  included: boolean
}

globifyGitIgnoreFile (function)

Parse and globy the .gitingore file that exists in a directory

Parameters:

• gitIgnoreDirectory (string) - The given directory that has the .gitignore file
• absolute (boolean) - [false] If true, the glob will be absolute

returns: Promise<GlobifiedEntry[]>

globifyGitIgnore (function)

Globify the content of a gitignore string

Parameters:

• gitIgnoreContent (string) - The content of the gitignore file
• gitIgnoreDirectory (string) - The directory of gitignore
• absolute (boolean) - [false] If true, the glob will be absolute

returns: Promise<GlobifiedEntry[]>

Other API

globifyPath (function)

Parameters:

• givenPath (string) - The given path to be globified
• givenDirectory (string) - [process.cwd()] The cwd to use to resolve relative path names
• absolute (boolean) - [false] If true, the glob will be absolute

returns: Promise<[GlobifiedEntry] | [GlobifiedEntry, GlobifiedEntry]>

globifyDirectory (function)

Globifies a directory

Parameters:

• givenDirectory (string) - The given directory to be globified

returns: string

globifyGitIgnoreEntry (function)

Parameters:

• gitIgnoreEntry (string) - One git ignore entry (it expects a valid non-comment gitignore entry with no surrounding whitespace)
• gitIgnoreDirectory (string) - The directory of gitignore
• absolute (boolean) - [false] If true, the glob will be absolute

returns: Promise<[GlobifiedEntry] | [GlobifiedEntry, GlobifiedEntry]>

getGlob (function)

Parameters:

• g (GlobifiedEntry)

returns: string

globSorter (variable)

uniqueMatcher (function)

Parameters:

• a (GlobifiedEntry)
• b (GlobifiedEntry)

returns: boolean

uniqueGlobs (function)

Parameters:

• globs (GlobifiedEntry[])

returns: any

uniqueSortGlobs (function)

Parameters:

• globs (GlobifiedEntry[])

returns: any

posixifyPath (function)

Converts given path to Posix (replacing \ with /)

Parameters:

• givenPath (string) - Path to convert

returns: string

posixifyPathNormalized (function)

Converts given path to Posix (replacing \ with /) and removing ending slashes

Parameters:

• givenPath (string) - Path to convert

returns: string

getPathType (function)

Get the type of the given path

Parameters:

• givenPath - Absolute path
• filepath (string)

returns: Promise<PATH_TYPE>

🤝 Contributing

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https://github.com/sponsors/aminya

Pull requests, issues and feature requests are welcome. See the Contributing guide.