Simpler exclusion pattern when globbing

[aaronbushnell]

When I try to exclude a directory (and its files) from a glob, I need to write out the pattern like this:

[
  'app/**',
  '!app/{_tmp,_tmp/**}'
]

Just using this:

[
  'app/**',
  '!app/_tmp/**'
]

would copy over the directory, but will not contain any files. While using this:

[
  'app/**',
  '!app/_tmp/'
]

would copy over _tmp and its files.

Is there any way to simplify this pattern? It seems like just using '!app/_tmp/**' should be sufficient to exclude the directory entirely.

(Referencing gulpjs/gulp#165)

[isochronous]

Or even 'app/!(_tmp)/**.

[astericky]

I was just about to ask this question myself. Then I saw this. Hopefully, this is something that can be added to make minimatch and by extension gulp easier to use going forward.

[adamvoss]

+1

[mark-zacharias]

+1

[isaacs]

You can do explicit ignores with glob now, but this is not (and likely won't ever be) supported in minimatch.

glob('**', { ignore: 'app/{_tmp,_tmp/**}' }, cb)