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```exclude``` seems to be ignored in linking

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Hello everyone, I have a zsh config folder in my .dotfiles, which looks like this:

zsh/alias.zsh
zsh/bindings.zsh
zsh/custom_completions/_docker-compose
zsh/custom_completions/_gh
zsh/env.zsh
zsh/functions.zsh
zsh/install_zsh.sh
zsh/options.zsh
zsh/plugins.txt
zsh/plugins.zsh
zsh/zshenv
zsh/zshrc

I also have my install.conf.yaml to try things out, which looks as follows:

- link:
    ~/.zshenv:
      path: zsh/zshenv
    ~/.config/zsh/:
      glob: true
      path: zsh/*
      exclude:
        - zsh/zshenv
        - zsh/zshrc

However, by the look of things my exlude is completely ignored:

Link exists ~/.zshenv -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/zshenv
Globs from 'zsh/*': ['zsh/options.zsh', 'zsh/plugins.txt', 'zsh/alias.zsh', 'zsh/zshrc', 'zsh/zshenv', 'zsh/bindings.zsh', 'zsh/install_zsh.sh', 'zsh/functions.zsh', 'zsh/custom_completions', 'zsh/plugins.zsh', 'zsh/env.zsh']
Link exists ~/.config/zsh/options.zsh -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/options.zsh
Link exists ~/.config/zsh/plugins.txt -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/plugins.txt
Link exists ~/.config/zsh/alias.zsh -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/alias.zsh
Creating link ~/.config/zsh/zshrc -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/zshrc
Creating link ~/.config/zsh/zshenv -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/zshenv
Link exists ~/.config/zsh/bindings.zsh -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/bindings.zsh
Link exists ~/.config/zsh/install_zsh.sh -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/install_zsh.sh
Link exists ~/.config/zsh/functions.zsh -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/functions.zsh
Link exists ~/.config/zsh/custom_completions -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/custom_completions
Link exists ~/.config/zsh/plugins.zsh -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/plugins.zsh
Link exists ~/.config/zsh/env.zsh -> /Users/USER/.dotfiles/zsh/env.zsh

I tried all sorts of different approaches with exclude statement, however it keeps linking files, which I am trying to exclude.

Am I missing something here?

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Created 2 years ago
Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

1reaction

etkeyscommented, Apr 5, 2021

Hi! What version of dotbot are you using? Can you run again with --verbose and provide the resulting output?

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arkAD93commented, Apr 6, 2021

When did you set up Dotbot? That may have been the latest version when you set it up. You can upgrade it with git submodule update --remote dotbot (remember to git commit your changes afterwards, or the ./install will revert it). Cannot say for sure, about 1-2h before opening the issue.

Looks like git submodule update --remote dotbot did the trick. I have no idea how I ended up with older version. Thanks for helping out.

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