Does Glitch ignore the files and directories listed on “.gitignore” when exporting to GitHub?
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It should - that’s the reason for having .gitignore. Are you seeing different behavior?
Sorry for digging this up but i have a similar question. Does Glitch ignore the files and directories listed on “.gitignore” when import from GitHub?
Yes - they don’t show up in the editor
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Hey @trithien97, when you import fromGitHub the contents of your project are overwritten by the imported files. Typically there won’t be any files in the GitHub repo if they’re listed in .gitignore, so there won’t be anything to import.
Once imported, and files added that are listed in .gitignore won’t show in the Editor file tree, as @jarvis394 notes.
Hi @cori, is there another way to save data files in a folder on Glitch beside using the .data folder? I tried storing some images in a folder called “images” and then add the line “images/**” to .gitignore file to ignore that folder. However it always get overwritten when i import my code from GitHub.
Hey, @trithien97
You can try using this script instead of using Import from GitHub button:
#/bin/sh
git fetch origin master
git reset --hard origin/master
git pull origin master --force -X theirs
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yeah, @trithien97, this is how i personally do imports if i don’t want to overwrite my app! when you use ‘import from github’ button, the repo on github completely overwrites the project on glitch which is why you’re losing those images.
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