#31283: "collecstatic --clear" could take ignored patterns into consideration
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Reporter: maticomp | Owner: nobody
Type: New feature | Status: new
Component: contrib.staticfiles | Version: master
Severity: Normal | Keywords:
Triage Stage: Unreviewed | Has patch: 0
Needs documentation: 0 | Needs tests: 0
Patch needs improvement: 0 | Easy pickings: 0
UI/UX: 0 |
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When calling `collectstatic --clear` all files from `STATIC_ROOT` are
cleared, as per documentation (see #22891), which is understandable.
However, `collectstatic` has `--ignore PATTERN` option as well as the
possibility to configure ignored patterns through `StaticFilesConfig` and
`ignore_patterns` variable. This is a handy feature that by default
ignores some auxiliary files **['CVS', '.*', '*~']** during collecting
process.
The documentation is lax about that, but `--clear` is not taking those
patterns into account, while I think it could.
The most obvious scenario I've run into was with a project that had
`static` folder commited to the repository with `.gitkeep` and/or
`.gitignore` file inside, to make sure the directory is present, clearly
visible from the outset in the project tree and accounted for.
Running `collectstatic --clear` clears all the directory contents,
including `.gitkeep` that would be matched by **['CVS', '.*', '*~']** if
pattern ignores were considered during clearing. As a result, Git will
start treating this directory as untracked one, and missing `.git*` as a
uncommited changeset.
Ideally, the `--clear` option would respect `--ignore` and
`StaticFilesConfig`, hence the feature proposal. Otherwise, the
documentation could be a bit more verbose that it's not the case.
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