Nothing is getting excluded

[amithgeorge]

I have an Asp.net MVC 4 web project. I installed PublishIgnore 1.0.5 using Nuget. It created the .targets and .ignore files. I edited the publish.ignore file to exclude the App_Readme\ folder. I then published the project to my desktop (ie, publish to a local folder using the FileSystem option). The publishing process deletes all existing files before publishing.

The publish location contains the App_Readme folders and its files. Even the .targets and publish.ignore files are present.

My publish.ignore currently looks like this

# You can declare files/folders that should be ignored here. For example

# how to exclude files
#   sample.html
#   sayed*.html
#   \sayed.html

# how to exclude folders
#   admin\
#   private/

# prevents this file from being published
publish.ignore
*.wpp.targets
App_Readme/

[amithgeorge]

Using the ExcludeFoldersFromDeployment tag as demonstrated in the post Web Deployment: Excluding Files and Folders via the Web Application’s Project File I was able to exclude the App_Readme folder.

I had originally tried the ExcludeFromPackageFiles mentioned in http://sedodream.com/2010/05/01/WebDeploymentToolMSDeployBuildPackageIncludingExtraFilesOrExcludingSpecificFiles.aspx, but that also didn't work for me. Just mentioning it, incase PublishIgnore makes use of this tag.

[sayedihashimi]

Thanks, I'll investigate it. Can you tell me what version of Visual Studio are you using?

[amithgeorge]

I am using VS 2012. Its an Asp.Net MVC 4 project. I have .Net 4.5 installed. So it must be using the corresponding version of MS Build.

[bchavez]

Out of the box (via NuGet), this wasn't working for me either.

I got it to work by using the "-Pre" release NuGet version:

Install-Package PublishIgnore -Pre
// Currently PublishIgnore 1.0.6-beta

and by adding ls.pubignore.wpp.targets targets file to my .pubxml file:

<Project ToolsVersion="4.0" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/developer/msbuild/2003">
  <PropertyGroup>
    <WebPublishMethod>FileSystem</WebPublishMethod>
      .....
    <publishUrl>./CIBuild</publishUrl>
    <DeleteExistingFiles>False</DeleteExistingFiles>
  </PropertyGroup>
  <Import Project="..\..\ls.pubignore.wpp.targets"/> <!-- MUST BE IMPORTED HERE -->
</Project>

Otherwise, a straight *.wpp.targets drop in doesn't work.

[ansorg]

tried waht @bchavez suggests but even then nothing gets ignored; VS2013.
Falling back to ExcludeFoldersFromDeployment

[AArkiane]

EDIT :
Hum this is weird but after a new reboot of VS the package starts working!? So it seams to be ok for me on my new projects by now...

Original message:
Same problem here, it's weird because I successfully used this package on one project (classic asp, not .Net), but I can not use it on my new projects, publish.ignore content seems to be never took in count.
MVC4 projets on VS2013 Express.

I want to exclude a folder and it's content:

• root
  • [...]
  • Logs/log_return.log
  • [...]

Tried:
logs/
logs
Logs/
Logs
*.log

Then:
logs/.log
logs_.log
Logs/.log
Logs_.log

Then:
logs/log_return.log
logs\log_return.log
Logs/log_return.log
Logs\log_return.log

Nothing works...

Any idea?

Regards,
Anthony

[sayedihashimi]

Sorry for the delay. You should update to the latest which is 1.0.6-beta. I have just unlisted 1.0.5 to make that more clear.

Can you tell me if the issue continues using 1.0.6-beta?

You shouldn't have to edit the .pubxml file to import the .wpp.targets file. In some cases _you may need to restart Visual Studio_. Usually Visual Studio will detect the .wpp.targets file and pick it up on the next publish but in some cases it may not. Try restarting VS to see if that helps.

[joelbert]

I'm using 1.0.6-beta in VS 2013.4 and having the same issue. If I start the line with a forward slash or backslash I can ignore a file from the root folder, for example:

/publish.ignore

But without the slash at the start, the file is deployed. Also, I'd like to prevent all files with a certain extension from being deployed, for all folders. This is how I attempted to do that for one file type:

*.sprite

But this isn't working. Is this wildcard syntax supported?